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 Plastic is recycled in a full circle in Germany
Posted on April 18, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste Newshttp://www.gruener-punkt.de/en/corporate/press/video-library/plastics-recycling.html
An inspiring video.
The Specialists for Take-back Solutions
Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD) was founded in 1990 as the first dual system, and is nowadays a leading provider of take-back systems. These include not only close-to-home collection and recovery of sales packages, but also eco-friendly, cost-efficient recycling of used electrical and electronic equipment and of transport packages, facility waste disposal service and deposit clearing. The DSD subsidiary German Association for closed-loop economy and raw materials (“Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kreislaufwirtschaft und Rohstoffe mbH”, DKR) belongs to Europe’s largest raw material traders.
The Green Dot (“Der Grüne Punkt “) is worldwide protected and one of the most widely used trademarks.
In order to liberate industrial firms and retailers from their individual take-back and recovery obligations under the German Packaging Ordinance, DSD established, on the basis of this ordinance, a second (dual) disposal system besides the public-sector waste disposal service. As the first system of its kind worldwide, it has since 1991 been providing nationwide collection of used sales packages like yoghurt tubs, ketchup bottles or beverage cartons and obtains raw materials from them for the closed-cycle economy.
The tasks involved in collecting, sorting and recovering used sales packages are financed using the participation fees paid by the manufacturers who put the sales packages concerned into circulation. The fees are graduated in accordance with the material and weight of the packages concerned: the less the package weighs, the lower the fee will be.
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