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? 
Chicago’s So-Called Plastic Bag Ban Goes Into Effect For Smaller Stores
Posted on August 3, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
The ban has been criticized not just by people who hate the specter of the nanny state in their grocery-shopping but environmentalists who point out the law doesn’t really ban plastic bags.
Source: Chicago’s So-Called Plastic Bag Ban Goes Into Effect For Smaller Stores
Now stores are handing out plastic bags that are four times thicker. They’re meant to be reused, but often aren’t. There are reports from the Illinois Retail Merchants Association that fewer plastic bags are being handed out but that is largely due to a decrease in double-bagging—not because customers are reusing bags. Handing out half the bags that are four times as thick means that twice the plastic is being used as before.
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