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 Only Way is Essex for Veolia’s First Plastic Recycling Plant – UK
Posted on November 8, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
The Only Way is Essex for Veolia’s First Plastic Recycling Plant – Waste Mangagement World.
According to Veolia if every local authority across the UK adopted mixed plastic recycling it would save over 300,000 tonnes of CO2 per year – the equivalent of removing approximately 75,000 cars from the road.
The company added that the UK as a whole is currently collecting around 180,000 tonnes of plastic bottles per annum, which represents around 30% of the estimated 550,000 tonnes that enter the waste stream every year.
The firm added that the facility represents a £5 million investment into the UK economy and has created 45 new jobs.
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