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? 
Italy furious as British block ban on plastic bags
Posted on May 29, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Italy furious as British block ban on plastic bags – Telegraph.
Italy introduced the ban on shops supplying the bags in 2011 as studies showed that 73 percent of the human waste settling on the sea bed off the Italian coast was plastic bags.
The country’s supermarket chains now sell biodegradable plastic bags, or thicker plastic bags designed to be reused.
One would wonder why the UK would oppose such a simple ban on an item that is not needed. A survey said that approx 12 month after Italy banned the the bags, that the general public when a poll was taken, said hey did not what the bags back again. This shows that once people get used to a reusable bag at the store they don’t want to go back to these environmentally damaging plastic bags.
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