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? 
Balloon Crackdown Doesn’t Last Very Long, Vendors Say – The Cambodia Daily
Posted on November 14, 2016 by DrRossH in BalloonsTwo months ago, authorities banned balloon vendors from tourist-dense areas of Phnom Penh like the riverside, the Royal Palace and Independence Monument, saying the vendors’ gas tanks could trigger explosions, stampedes and acts of terrorism. But for vendors who ply Sihanouk Boulevard, the prohibition has amounted to little more than a cat-and-mouse game with authorities.
Source: Balloon Crackdown Doesn’t Last Very Long, Vendors Say – The Cambodia Daily
“When they kick me out, I just wait and come back” 10 to 15 minutes later, the 29-year-old said. “They told me it’s a prohibited place, a tourist place…. They told me that I was too close to the prime minister’s house and [the tanks] might explode.”
The concern may not be unfounded. A global shortage in helium—the inert, noncombustible gas widely used to fill balloons—has resulted in some vendors turning to the far more inflammable hydrogen gas.
Not an environmental reason to ban the balloons but a security reason!
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