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 release ban by council welcomed – Australia
Posted on March 21, 2017 by DrRossH in Balloons
No Balloon Relase Australia says Bega Valley council is helping set an example.
Source: Balloon release ban by council welcomed
“Education does not always work. By council banning the release of balloons, it is setting an example and telling the community this is a serious issue.”
Ms Joynes said balloon debris is not inconsequential.
“By using Tangaroa Blue’s Australian Marine Debris Initiative database, I informed the council meeting that in my 28 reports over three years, 260 balloons – remnant, whole or burst – were collected from just one kilometre section of beach.
At Beachpatrol Australia we collected over 700 balloons or their fragments off the same 35 m of beach we surveyed every morning for a year. So yes balloon bans are the way to go. Well done to Eurobodalla.
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