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? 
Fremantle bans plastic bags and imposes fines of up to $2,500 | Environment | theguardian.com
Posted on July 29, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsFremantle bans plastic bags and imposes fines of up to $2,500 | Environment | theguardian.com.
The city of Fremantle will become the first local government in Australia to enforce a law to ban plastic bags.
The port city in Western Australia voted on Wednesday night to introduce a new law banning retailers from providing shoppers with single-use, non-biodegradable plastic bags.
Shop owners who ignore the laws will initially be fined $150; serial offenders could face a fine of up to $2,500.
The mayor of Fremantle, Brad Pettitt, said there was strong business and community support for outlawing plastic bags.
A great progressive step by a WA council in spite of Federal government opposition to this. Not only does this show how out of touch the federal government in Australia is with the people it shows how a technical issues caused the removal of a 10 cent charge resulted in a total ban introduction. Fremantle will be so much better off with this as will its native wildlife
. They are right on the coast.
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