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 maddening new plastic bottle lids are ruining our lives for a good reason – UK
Posted on August 25, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
Drinking from a bottle seems to have suddenly become a struggle, thanks to caps that remain attached. But this annoying development is rooted in the battle against plastic waste, Katie Rosseinsky discovers
Source: The maddening new plastic bottle lids are ruining our lives for a good reason | The Independent
What might seem like an infuriating change seems much more reasonable when you start to explore the impact of our soft drinks habit. When lids are “untethered” from bottles, they often get dropped or lost, potentially blown by the wind or carried by the rain into drains or rivers that flow out into the sea; bottle caps are among the most common forms of plastic waste found on Europe’s beaches. And even if they do get to a recycling bin and then processing plant, their diminutive size is a problem. “Caps are filtered out through sieving drums because they are too small,”
All thse people that complain are just so celf centered. Think about other beings in the world for once. The tethered top is a great innovation that needs to be put on every drink bottle.
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