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? 
A ban on balloons? It could happen in one Western Washington city – USA
Posted on September 8, 2017 by DrRossH in Balloons
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. (KOMO) – A city councilmember on Bainbridge Island in Washington wants to ban balloons, and is introducing the proposal at Tuesday night’s council meeting.It’s been something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while, said council
Source: A ban on balloons? It could happen in one Western Washington city
“It’s been something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while,” said councilmember Michael Scott.
Scott wants to ban the sale and use of balloons on Bainbridge Island that are not 100 percent biodegradable.
The idea is getting mixed reaction from people who live on the island.
“I just hardly know what to say but it’s going to ruin so many birthdays,” said Bainbridge Island resident Susan Jackson.
Scott said he’s been seeing an increasing number of balloons littered across the island which can be harmful to animals and wildlife.
“This is something that is easy, relatively easy, to take care of,” said Scott. “I struggle with this because we all have fond memories of balloons, but does that entitle us to endanger our environment or living creatures who are part of the environment? I don’t think so.”
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