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? 
Grocery Store Hipocrisy – Australia
Posted on March 1, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsAustralia only has two main national grocery stores. Woolworths and Coles. Both members of the Australian Food and Grocery Council. (AFGC). This council has opposed the introduction of a container deposit scheme (CDS) to stop our nation being littered with drink bottles and cans. Australia has a huge littering problem with these items. They are littered every where. The AFGC has cited reasons for not introducing a CDS from being too complicated, or being an inconvenience for the consumer.
Yet this picture here shown inside one of these grocery stores tells people they have to make a refundable deposit in the store to get a shopping
cart. The deposit will be returned when the trolley is returned. Yes you read that right!
These deposits on the carts were introduced as people were taking the trolley from the store to take their groceries to their car or dwelling and not returning them. Even leaving them littering the street where they were left! Imagine.
The hypocrisy of this. It is fine for the store to have a deposit scheme to get their trolley back but they oppose a deposit scheme for drink bottles they sell. They have learned that a deposit scheme works well for their items yet they still oppose it for a drink bottle saying it won’t work! Shame.
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