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? 
DuPont investors cast record vote on plastic pellets – USA
Posted on May 7, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Plastic pellets are the building blocks for nearly all plastic products and, according to As You Sow, are estimated to be the second largest direct source of microplastic pollution to the ocean by weight.
Once produced by petrochemical companies like DuPont, pellets are transported by rail, ship or road to a second or third destination before being melted into a final product.
It is estimated that throughout the pellet supply chain, an estimated 10 trillion plastic pellets are spilled and unrecovered every year, according to recent figures from ECOS.
DuPont is a member of Operation Clean Sweep, an industry program that has been revealed to be designed largely to fend off regulation, not to ensure compliance nor success.
Here in Australia, plastic pellets can be found all around their factories and related water ways all too easily. And there is no regulation them either. They need to be reclassed as a ‘Dangerous good” to ensure their proper handling and storage.
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