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? 
Indian City Corp clueless on plastic bags
Posted on April 5, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Corp clueless on plastic bags | Deccan Chronicle.
We encourage them to get rid of the plastic bag. They are an environmental blight. The amount of environmental damage they do in various places in the world is considerable from unsightly litter in rivers and trees, to mosquito havens for water trapped in them, to blocked drains and flooding of streets and people houses, to dead wildlife. All for what? For the owner of a plastics company to make more money? A convenient bag to carry some groceries around a for a few minutes? Let’s start to put some sanity back, reusable bags create employment, use local resources, and don’t cause the environmental damage the plastic ones do.
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