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? 
Five companies under investigation as UK recycling slows in 2012
Posted on June 2, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
While steel and wood recycling were marginally up, all other materials listed – paper, glass, aluminium and plastics – were marginally down for the year.
The drops come in the same year that the government pushed through ambitious recycling targets for 2017 that include, for instance, a requirement for plastics recycling to grow by 5% every year for the next five years.
Due to its long polluting life, plastic used for disposable purposes such as packaging should have an ‘Environment Care’ surcharge put on it to incentivise manufacturers to seek alternate ways to present their products. At the current time, neither the manufacturers nor the consumers are paying the proper price for plastic. The price has to reflect the manufacture cost as well as the disposal cost.
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