How many people today grab a takeaway coffee cup from the local cafe to drink on the go? We don’t know, but the number must be enormous.. Most every one of the above have a plastic top that will last 100s of years. Some cafes still use plastic cups that last a similar time. Is 10 minutes of coffee worth 100s of years of trash?
These items can be seen littering our gutters and on our streets all over the place. If they were all cardboard, they would still be littered, but they would, at least, be gone in a short time.
They do not need to be made of plastic.
On the way home from the gym last week, a distance of about 1 km (1/2 mile), I counted the items of plastic litter on the curb as I walked. In that short distance I counted 63 pieces of plastic litter. Plastic drink bottles, bottle tops, candy wrappers, plastic film, polystyrene fragments etc. That seemed to be a lot to me. I guess it is a generational thing. Our parents would have been horrified to see that amount, whereas it seems to go unnoticed by our youth of today. In another 20 years how many pieces will there be on this stretch, -- 200? What will today’s youth think of that new amount then when they are older? Will their children be so readily accepting of a higher amount of litter? 
Deleting heavyweight plastic bags is great, but what are the alternatives? – Australia
Posted on February 23, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
The Boomerang Alliance is concerned that the alternatives now being proposed to the heavyweight plastic bags, so called ‘reusable’ or paper bags, are not the answer. Paper is another single-use, disposable product, and the ‘reusable’ bags currently available to do not meet a genuine reusable standard. They are called reusable because they are a bit thicker or sturdier. Most are just greenwash products.
We couldn’t agree more.
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