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? 
Port Phillip Bay Polluted with Microplastics – Australia
Posted on June 26, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsMELBOURNE’S bays and rivers are in danger of becoming a “plastic soup” if nothing is
done to curb litter from spilling into the city’s waterways.
Environmental experts and campaigners have expressed concern about the number of tiny plastic particles, known as microplastics, found in Port Phillip Bay that have come through the Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers and threaten aquatic life.
Microplastics have been found washed up at many of the state’s beaches.
As a result, Port Phillip Baykeeper Neil Blake has teamed up with Yarra Riverkeeper Ian Penrose to trawl the water with a specially designed net for plastics as part of a trial initiated by Port Phillip Council and paid for under the Government’s Litter Hot Spots Program.
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