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 state bans plastic packaging of junk food
Posted on July 14, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Pack Web Asia – Indian state bans plastic packaging of junk food.
The Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is implementing a ban on the sale of a range of “non-essential food items” in non-biodegradable and plastic packaging material, effective 26 January 2014.
On 26 December, the Himachal Pradesh High Court gave the green light to the ban on plastic packaging for junk food items, including potato chips, wafer biscuits, chocolates, sweets etc, and has directed district magistrates and the state police to strictly enforce the ban.
If only the people in the West could understand picture like this, then we would have a better chance of controlling the overuse of plastic.
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