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? 
How to prepare for Chicago’s new disposable bag tax
Posted on December 8, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Beginning January 1, Chicagoans may once again be faced with the age-old consumer’s’ dilemma, “paper or plastic.” That’s because the cit
Source: How to prepare for Chicago’s new disposable bag tax
Beginning January 1, Chicagoans may once again be faced with the age-old consumer’s’ dilemma, “paper or plastic.” That’s because the city’s current (ineffective) ban on plastic bags will be replaced with a 7-cent tax for every disposable bag (paper and plastic) a shopper uses.
In November, Chicago City Council unanimously approved the new tax as part of the 2017 city budget, which anticipates $9.2 million in revenue from the tax. However, Office of Budget and Management spokeswoman Molly Poppe told the Chicago Tribune that the goal isn’t to boost revenue. Instead, the city hopes the tax will lead to a reduction in the number of bags littering parks and other areas or ending up in landfills.
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