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? 
Plastic bottles are decimating ocean life – Ireland
Posted on July 15, 2016 by DrRossH in General
BACK TO Ireland to a countryside every bit as lush and lovely as Czech, and a sea as blue as the Med, in the Balearics, if not as warm.
Source: Plastic bottles are decimating ocean life
Some 13bn single-use plastic bottles are annually bought in the UK — 200 bottles per person per year.
Only 50% are recycled: 6.5bn bottles are strewn on streets, verges, parks and beaches, or tossed into culverts, rivers and seas. They are a plague.
Their manufacture squanders valuable fossil fuels and releases CO2 into the skies. The plastic contains bisphenol A (BPA), a cancer-inducing toxin, which may be released if it is scratched. The EU banned BPA from baby bottles in 2011.
When a deposit scheme was initiated in Germany, 98.5% of bottles were returned.
The Scandinavian countries, Iceland, and Estonia have adopted similar schemes. Scotland is considering a total ban.
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