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? 
How Australia’s biggest soft plastics recycler providing essential service to Woolies and Coles was really just stockpiling rubbish at dozens of ‘secret’ warehouses before it went bust owing millions of dollars – Australia
Posted on April 11, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
The recycler who secreted away Coles and Woolworths plastic bags in warehouses collapsed owing $5million to creditors, documents reveal.
Despite being paid $20million by the two supermarket giants to recycle plastic bags and other items for nearly a decade, REDcycle instead stored a mountain of waste at at least 44 sites.
When it collapsed in November 2020, the Melbourne-based firm was Australia’s largest soft plastic collection program but had been unable to conduct normal operations since the preceding June after a fire destroyed its Melbourne factory.
Coles and Woolworths deny they knew REDcycle was storing the plastic in warehouses, which so far have been found in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Tasmania.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority has given permission to store the plastics for a year in that state and if no recycling avenue can be found in during that period they will go to landfill.
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