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? 
The City of Sydney Is Helping to Fund a BYO Coffee Cup Campaign -Australia
Posted on August 12, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
Helping heaps of local cafes and customers to ditch takeaway coffee for good.
Source: The City of Sydney Is Helping to Fund a BYO Coffee Cup Campaign – Concrete Playground
The campaign will receive an injection of government funding via the City of Sydney’s latest round of knowledge exchange sponsorships.
“In our area alone, 100 million takeaway coffee cups end up in landfill every year – and each one takes around 50 years to decompose,” said Lord Mayor Clover Moore. “Responsible Cafes connects and promotes cafes that encourage customers to refuse takeaway cups for good, and they’re aiming to recruit another 100 new city cafes.”
Can Melbourne the coffee capital, follow suit and make the same commitment?
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