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? 
Animals suffering slow and painful deaths caused by helium balloons – Australia
Posted on February 25, 2017 by DrRossH in Balloons
Helium balloons are killing wildlife at one of Victoria’s top nature tourism destinations.
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Helium balloons are killing wildlife at one of Victoria’s most popular nature tourism destinations.
An Australian fur seal is the latest animal to be saved from a painful death caused by a burst balloon.
Researchers at Phillip Island are reporting that an increasing number of birds and animals are ingesting, or becoming tangled in, the remnants of burst helium balloons.
A young fur seal was saved by researchers this week after it was discovered with balloon ribbon wrapped around its neck.
Without intervention, the seal would have suffered and died a slow death while it grew with the ribbon cutting into its flesh.
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