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? 
Thousands expected to help spring clean Lake Geneva
Posted on May 19, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
Around 1,500 people are expected to volunteer in this weekend’s lake-cleaning exercise on the shores of Lake Geneva.
Source: Thousands expected to help spring clean Lake Geneva
This year’s clean-up focuses on plastic, highlighted as a particular problem in Lake Geneva in a study by Lausanne’s technology institute EPFL.
Speaking to news agencies on Tuesday, national councillor Guillaume Barazzone said the amount of plastic rubbish is down to the fact that it’s produced in the first place.
“I launch an appeal to large supermarkets to reduce their packaging and put an end to plastic bags,” he said.
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