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 to prepare for the imminent plastic bags ban in supermarkets – Australia
Posted on May 2, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Plastic bags will soon vanish from supermarket checkouts Australia-wide with the first Coles and Woolworths stores removing single-use plastic bans.
Source: How to prepare for the imminent plastic bags ban in supermarkets
The countdown has begun – in less than two months free plastic carry bags in supermarkets will be a thing of the past.
Coles and Woolworths are already beginning to phase out plastic bags in dozens of stores Australia-wide, and by July the transition will be complete.
This is way over due. It shows how ridiculous the shopping industry has become. The ‘I won’t do it if you won’t do it’ is so negative. If they followed a leadership plans of ‘I’ll be first to extoll our new plans to look after the environment’ then see the others try to catch up.
As for Target, the reason they gave is not quite true. They blamed the charging of the bags on the down turn in their sales. Really? Ignoring the fact that all retail was down at the same time! Such petty managers.
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