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 waste found inside washed up whales – Germany
Posted on March 31, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlife
Large amounts of plastic waste have been found in the stomachs of several beached sperm whales.
via Plastic waste found inside washed up whales.
In a statement Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park said among the garbage swallowed was a fishing net that was 13 metres long, a plastic car engine cover and the remains of a plastic bucket. While this was not the reason for the stranding and death of the animals, veterinarians and biologists suspect the whales would have had major health problems as a result of swallowing the debris.
As if the whaling industry was not killing off whales fast enough now we are all doing it with our overuse of plastic. Stop using disposable plastic items!
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