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? 
Across the planet, the plastic bag abounds – Canada
Posted on May 24, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Across the planet, the plastic bag abounds – The Globe and Mail.
Toronto imposed a 5 cent plastic bag fee in 2008 and approximately $5.4 million was collected by the retailers. The retailers were free to keep the funds or donate part of them to any charity. The subsequent drop in bag consumption was considerable as was the plastic bag litter.
Now the Toronto Mayor wants to drop the fee and go back to the old ways of millions of plastic bags polluting the environment and clogging landfills. This is such a retrograde proposale one would have to ask what was the driving force behind it?
The members of the council are not behind it and are opposing their own mayor.
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