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? 
Change is in the bag, but lawmakers lag on plastic
Posted on March 30, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
There is no rational reason not to get rid of bags that pollute land and sea, waste scarce resources, contaminate the food chain and choke and poison many creatures.
Source: Change is in the bag, but lawmakers lag on plastic
There is no rational reason not to make the move, and there are many rational reasons to emulate a policy that benefits the economy, society and the environment by slashing waste, improving public health and cutting pollution.
Why does this take so long? One would think that a govt would want to do a leading move like this that is obviously going to come sooner or later. They could then leave a legacy claiming they did something good for Australia. But the opposite seems to be true. What happens to people when they get into politics?
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