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? 
Reusable plastic bags being phased out by Woolies – Australia
Posted on August 11, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource
South Australia will be one of the first states to voluntarily phase out 15-cent reusable plastic shopping bags across Woolworths stores and online orders, following the retailer’s commitment to phase out the bags nationwide – a first for a major national supermarket. The change will also simultaneously take place in the Northern Territory.
Over the coming weeks, the supermarket will gradually run down stock of the reusable plastic shopping bags across South Australia and the Northern Territory, in a move that will see more than 916 tonnes of plastic removed from circulation annually.
Eight in every ten Woolworths customers already bring their own bags when they shop, and the retailer is continuing to encourage customers to bring their own bags to boost sustainability, rather than buying them in store. Woolworths’ paper bags made from at least 70 percent recycled paper will remain available to those who need them.
Woolworths was the first major national supermarket to remove single use plastic bags from stores in 2018, introducing the 15-cent reusable plastic shopping bag to help customers adjust to the change. With shopping habits evolving significantly since, the reusable plastic bags have now played their part.
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