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? 
Vancouver votes to ban plastic straws, foam cups and containers by June 2019 – Canada
Posted on May 20, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Straws
Council voted to bring in a distribution ban on straws and polystyrene on June 1, 2019.
Source: Vancouver votes to ban plastic straws, foam cups and containers by June 2019 | CBC News
Vancouver has voted to ban the distribution of plastic straws as well as foam take-out containers and cups as part of its zero-waste strategy.
The ban will be introduced on June 1, 2019.
The move is part of the city’s Zero Waste 2040 strategy, which was approved by councillors in a vote on Wednesday.
Council also approved a new, flexible bylaw to reduce the amount of disposable cups, as well as plastic and paper shopping bags handed out across the city.
Under the bylaw, a statement said, businesses must choose one of the following options:
- No distribution of disposable cups or plastic/paper shopping bags at all.
- Charging an extra fee for disposable cups or plastic/paper shopping bags.
This plastic ban/reduction is starting to take place in many parts of the world now. it is desperately needed. Unfortunately the Australian federal conservative government is saying it will cost industry too much so they are happy to keep letting our oceans and wild be destroyed by plastic manufacturers.
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