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? 
Trash rivers: these 10 rivers are responsible for most plastic that flows out to the seas
Posted on August 19, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlife
Just ten rivers are responsible for up to 95% of all river-borne plastic trash that ends up in the sea. Silver lining: cleaning them up would have a huge positive impact.
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It would seem to be simpler to just control these 10 outlets to the ocean. But the issue is control by whom? The outlets are in sovereign countries and attempts to get world bodies to work together to get individual countries to change their economic system to save the planet have been very unsuccessful in the past. Climate change by the worst polluters, deforestation in Brazil are examples that have failed. But this has to change as this plastic problem is a hugely serious problem.
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