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? 
Bottle art sheds light on litter – Australia
Posted on May 15, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
‘Some people were picking up between 20 to 30 bottles per day, just from the streets of Ipswich.”
Source: Bottle art sheds light on litter
Artist Glen Smith collected bottles from the street, and was shocked at how many weren’t put into bins. “Some people were picking up between 20 to 30 bottles per day, just from the streets of Ipswich,” Mr Smith said.
Most plastic bottles are made from PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) which can take between 400-1000 years to degrade in landfills, and can end up in waterways or oceans.
The only effective way to fix this is with a Cash for Containers Scheme which Queensland is getting next year.
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