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? Nearly 200 Coles shareholders push for plastic packaging cuts – Australia
Posted on September 18, 2026 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: Nearly 200 Coles shareholders push for plastic packaging cuts
Jones said the self-reported plastic intensity score from Woolworths reveals 10 grams of plastic were used per unit sold across its supermarket and BigW stores in the previous financial year.
It’s the first time either of Australia’s biggest two supermarkets have ever published a plastic intensity score, and just the second time any of the major Australian supermarkets have done so.
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