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? 
Montreal stores could be fined up to $4K for giving out plastic bags with new bylaw
Posted on August 25, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
The City of Montreal passed a bylaw that will prevent stores from selling single-use plastic bags on its territory, cementing a recommendation from the city’s environmental committee.
Source: Montreal stores could be fined up to $4K for giving out plastic bags with new bylaw
The bylaw, passed Tuesday and in effect starting Jan. 1, 2018, applies to lightweight plastic shopping bags, specifically ones that are less than 50 microns (or 0.05 millimetres) thick.
The ban also applies to all types of oxo-degradable, oxo-fragmentable, oxo-biodegradable and biodegradable bags.
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