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 Bags: They Just Don’t Make Sense
Posted on June 13, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsOK, we’ve all heard it before, how bad they are for the environment, how they are a waste of fossil fuels, how they are ruining the planet. So why is it such a tough nut to crack?
Well, as we all know, some habits are just extremely hard to break. Look at smoking. There’s no question as to the negative side effects of smoking. There are government regulations in place to make it harder to smoke. And yet people still light up. Why? Because smoking is an addiction, just like plastic bags are an addiction. Sure they may not damage your lungs like smoking does, but they are convenient, free (for now), and easily accessible, so use them we do.
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