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? 
NSW won’t ban plastic bags, but Eritrea, Kenya and Rwanda all do
Posted on May 2, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
The NSW government’s ongoing refusal to outlaw plastic bags is ‘indefensible’ considering several third wor…
Source: NSW won’t ban plastic bags, but Eritrea, Kenya and Rwanda all do
At last month’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London, prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said Australia will not commit to a federal ban on single-use plastics.
Mr Turnbull said single-use plastic bag bans should be a state government decision.
“It’s not a simple matter, because it can impose additional costs and can create additional pollution,” Mr Turnbull said at CHOGM.
There are 150 million tonnes of plastic in the world’s oceans that kill one million birds and 100000 sea mammals each year, according to data presented during CHOGM.
NSW Labor MP Penny Sharpe confirmed to nine.com.au that Labor would immediately ban single-use plastic bags if it is voted into power in next year’s state election.
This is an example of how far the current government is beholden to company lobby groups. Any of the conservative governments have little interest in looking after the environment, keep companies running at maximum profits seems to be their aim. Such a short sighted view that is destroying Australia.
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