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? 
Having a go at life without plastic bags
Posted on May 28, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
It takes a bit of thought and planning, but living life without plastic bags is easy.
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In New Zealand, the future of the single-use plastic bag has been in the national spotlight lately, with supermarkets and businesses around the country announcing an intention to say goodbye to what used to be a store staple.
On Monday, 10 Countdown supermarkets went plastic bag free, with the intention all 182 stores will follow suit at the end of the year.
New World supermarkets will be doing the same by the end of 2018 and Mitre 10 announced its decision for all 128 stores, including Mitre 10 Mega and Hammer Hardware, to go plastic bag free from July 1.
Another example of NZ leading the way. But where is the govt in all this? What about all the other business that hand out far to many plastic bags?
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