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? 
Beached Whale Found With 30 Plastic Bags Crammed In Its Belly
Posted on February 5, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic & WildlifeA rare goose-beaked whale that repeatedly beached on a Norwegian shore was so ill that it had to be euthanized — and experts soon found out why. The 2-ton animal had about 30 plastic bags and other garbage packed in its stomach.
There was “no food, only some remnants of a squid’s head in addition to a thin fat layer,” said University of Bergen zoologist Terje Lislevand, according to The Associated Press.
The 20-foot adult male whale had appeared several times in shallow waters off the island of Sotra, and personnel from both the fire department and the Department of Wildlife Conservation repeatedly attempted to herd or tow the animal back into the deep.
The plastic — as well as candy wrappers, smaller bread bags and other garbage— was discovered during the necropsy, Norwegian public media NRK reported. Researchers believe the animal may have thought the bags were squid it could eat, according to Sky News.
The Australian State Government in Victoria doesn’t believe there is plastic problem so has put it self on a long slow path of a plastic inquiry that is getting more delays still. Even after the federal govt did it own inquiry and said Yes there is a a problem and the states have to take action now.
Recently the NZ environment minister said there was no evidence that plastic bags caused problems for marine life.
How many more tragic stories like this do we have to read before these politicians stop accepting funds from lobby groups and act for the betterment of the world?
An aside note, they said it was a rare whale. Well this rare whale will no longer have any off spring so the species now has a smaller future. All for the sake of a few $ profit for a few people.
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