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? 
RIP plastic bag ban; now on to Plan B – Texas
Posted on July 6, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsRuling invalidating local bag bans does not mean practice of using reusable bags has to stop.
Source: RIP plastic bag ban; now on to Plan B
The city bans on merchants dispensing plastic shopping bags has been hailed as helping to reduce trash in public spaces and flooding caused by bags clogging drainage lines. The bans have prompted a reduction in municipal maintenance costs.
The ban was supported by a wide range of groups including the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association. That’s because improperly disposed plastic bags damage farm equipment and affect the quality of crops, The Texas Observer reported.
A sad day for Texas!
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