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? 
Trump signs Alaska-backed bill targeting plastic trash in Ocean
Posted on October 24, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed into law a bill sponsored by Alaska U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan. It’s called Save Our Seas, and it aims to tackle the problem of plastic trash in the world’s oceans. The law renews the existing Marine Debris Program for another five years. And it allows go
Source: Trump signs Alaska-backed bill targeting plastic trash in Ocean
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed into law a bill sponsored by Alaska U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan.
It’s called Save Our Seas, and it aims to tackle the problem of plastic trash in the world’s oceans.
The law renews the existing Marine Debris Program for another five years. And it allows governors to request a declaration of a “severe marine debris event” in order to get resources to clean it up. The law also encourages the executive branch to take up the problem of plastic waste internationally.
Academic researchers say five nations are responsible for more than half of the plastic waste in the oceans: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
President Trump fit that into one of his major themes: that other countries are taking advantage of the United States.
Though modest in reality and only continues an existing law that is ineffectual, it is still a great move to keep highlighting this problem and those responsible for it.
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