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? 
Johor, Perak to ban polystyrene and plastic bags – India
Posted on April 20, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
IPOH – Perak and Johor, which are moving towards a ban on polystyrene containers, are encouraging people to use tiffin carriers or other biodegradable containers.The Perak government has declared a total ban on the usage of polystyrene containers and plastic bags from June next year.Residents here will have to use biodegradable containers or their own shopping bags then.
via Johor, Perak to ban polystyrene and plastic bags.
Ayub said plastic and polystyrene containers had been clogging up drains and rivers and even becoming mosquito-breeding grounds. Speaking to reporters, Ayub said that 80 per cent of the 160 tonnes of the rubbish collected yearly in Sungai Skudai, one of the dirtiest rivers in Johor, was made up of polystyrene and plastic.
If they can enforcce it this will be good.
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