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? 
Should we really be building out of plastic? No.
Posted on January 7, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
I thought it might be a way to use up all that plastic that they are going to make, but I was wrong.
Source: Should we really be building out of plastic? No.
I got off on a tangent, a modest proposal that perhaps it was a better idea to turn all those plastics into building materials that last instead of disposable bottles that get dumped in the ocean- that if we are going to make plastic, let’s make it last.
I was wrong. Because when you start looking at how plastics are actually made, it turns out that their manufacture has a huge carbon footprint.
Belief in the recycling of plastics as the saviour to plastic waste is a fallacy. Reduce is the only option that will save our future. Is it that hard to not use a single use bag or a disposable plastic straw or that water bottle? No it is not and we need to relearn this.
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