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? 
Microplastic nurdles take over Warrnambool coast
Posted on December 3, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
Hundreds of thousands of tiny microplastics have inundated the south-west Victorian coastline.
Source: Microplastic nurdles take over Warrnambool coast
Hundreds of thousands of tiny microplastics have inundated the south-west Victorian coastline, turning Warrnambool’s pristine beaches into something more evocative of a landfill.
The spill has been traced to a nearby sewage treatment facility owned and operated by Wannon Water.
It says the nurdles, commonly used for plastic manufacturing, were illegally dumped in its system, and the state’s environment watchdog is now investigating.
However, when it comes to who is responsible for the clean-up, local residents say the authorities have been far less proactive.
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