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? 
If it’s not biodegradable, refuse to use it – drinking straw becomes icon of pollution – Namibia
Posted on March 29, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Straws
An object as insignificant as a drinking straw has just been chosen by an environmental coalition as their symbol of the contamination of nature by plastic.
Source: If it’s not biodegradable, refuse to use it – drinking straw becomes icon of pollution
“With this campaign we call on all hotels, restaurants and food & beverage outlets to consider reducing, if not completely banning the use of one-way plastic straws. We wish to focus attention on the disastrous consequences of non-recyclable plastics ending up in rivers and oceans,” stated the No Straw alliance.
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