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? 
Main Roads WA commits $400K to tackle roadside litter – Australia
Posted on November 30, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
The Western Australian Government is rolling out a new campaign to tackle roadside litter by providing travellers with free compostable car litter bags.
Main Roads Western Australia has funded the $400,000 WA Naturally Thanks You program to help motorists dispose of their litter correctly.
The reusable ‘keep bags’ will be available at roadhouses along major highways. The campaign, coordinated by the Keep Australia Beautiful Council, also includes roadside signs, advertising at service stations, as well as social media.
A nine-month trial found the initiative reduced roadside litter by as much as 70 per cent at some locations, with roadsides among the most littered sites in the state.
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