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? 
Cassava’s single-use bags dissolve in hot water – Australia
Posted on February 17, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
Cassava Bags Australia has launched a biodegradable single-use bag and liner range, which the company says is non-toxic, 100 per cent plastic-free, and won’t break down into microplastics.
Cassava promises that its products will take just three minutes to dissolve in hot water, or six months to biodegrade in soil, while taking only a few days to dissolve in the ocean, and remaining safe for marine life to consume.
The bag, manufactured in Indonesia, can be dissolved in warm water, and the speed of the process depends on how hot the water is (as shown in the video below), according to the company, which asserts it also contains waterproof properties that can prevent it from dissolving when out and about and it rains.
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