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? 
Fife Matters: Parents of babies briefly known but forever loved won’t forget balloon ban – The Courier
Posted on June 2, 2017 by DrRossH in Balloons
Tomorrow is my daughter Liberty’s fifth birthday. Libby was stillborn on May 30, 2012, so as you can imagine it’s a trying time for the whole family as we reflect upon what might – what should – have been. It’s always been a day filled with sadness, but it’s also been a day filled with …
The author writes, But while I appreciate the fact that balloons and lanterns were banned by killjoy councillors because of a perceived danger to wildlife and the environment, using a sledgehammer to crack a nut was the wrong thing to do.
By its very nature, the charity has always been a responsible one – and sourced biodegradable balloons with the environmental impact in mind.
This person, while we all feel sorry for their loss, has to understand that it is not a ‘perceived’ danger to wildlife and that the councillors are not killjoys. They are being responsible government to ensure the environment is for all to enjoy not just a few to abuse. A biodegradable balloon if he were to read about them is a very misleading term by the balloon industry. They take months even years to break down and all that time they are dangerous to wildlife. Does he think if is little girl had lived that she would have grow up wanting her dad to be an instrument of harm or death to innocent wildlife. I would think not. So please congratulate the council on their balloon ban and use of alternate methods to have celebrations.
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