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? 
Make-up products containing tiny plastic microbeads to be banned by Govt – National – NZ Herald News
Posted on January 17, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Environment Minister Nick Smith says a crackdown on harmful plastics which make their way into New Zealand’s waterways will not extend to plastic bags. – New Zealand Herald
Source: Make-up products containing tiny plastic microbeads to be banned by Govt – National – NZ Herald News
“There is not the evidence in New Zealand that a substantive portion of the plastic bags that we use in shopping and other uses end up in the marine environment.”
Smith said he would not rule out changes in relation to plastic bags in future, but the Government’s focus was currently on a nationwide recycling scheme.
The minister needs to talk to people who clean up beach litter. They will soon show him plastic bags in the ocean.
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