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? 
CA Lawmakers Mull Bans On Drinking Straws, Mylar Balloons
Posted on June 2, 2017 by DrRossH in Balloons, Plastic Straws
Two items you’ll find at many a California celebration might soon be restricted if local legislators get their way, as a certain type of balloon faces tighter laws at the state level and the city of Berkeley considers banning plastic drinking straws from their little burg.
Source: CA Lawmakers Mull Bans On Drinking Straws, Mylar Balloons
Meanwhile in Berkeley, their city council is looking to cut out plastic drinking straws the way they have plastic bags (and many, many other things). According to CBS 5, the members of Berkeley’s city council banded together to propose a ban on plastic straws, suggesting that milkshake, bubble tea, or soda drinkers replace them with the far-more-expensive compostable straws.
About 500 million straws are thrown away each day in the US, alone, CBS 5 reports, with many ending up in the water (again, my mind goes to Trash Island). So now Berkeley’s council is considering a law that would force restaurants to use paper or bamboo straws instead, or encourage people to bring their own reusable straws.
Excellent moved by Berkeley. 3207Beachpatrol in Australia has started a “Last Plastic Straw” trial to get local Port Melbourne cafes off Plastic straws.
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