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? 
Plastics rescue mission launched for SMEs – Australia
Posted on August 4, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsGreat Plastic Rescue founder Bronwyn Voyce, and Australia’s 100 per cent carbon neutral shipper Sendle, have launched a state-wide rescue mission to save and recycle obsolete stock from small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs).
Image: Great Plastic Rescue.
The task coincides with the NSW government’s ban on lightweight single use plastics shopping bags, which is now in full effect, with the duo set to help as many SMEs as possible to donate, not ditch, their surplus plastic bag stock sustainably.
Together, Great Plastic Rescue and Sendle have helped SMEs caught off guard by the ban, to register and send their excess single-use shopping bags for free until 31 August 2022.
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