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? 
Kenya Becomes The Latest African Country To Ban Plastic Bags | Care2 Causes
Posted on March 27, 2017 by DrRossH in GeneralKenya has joined 15 other African countries, and numerous other place worldwide, in banning the manufacture and import of all plastic bags.
Source: Kenya Becomes The Latest African Country To Ban Plastic Bags | Care2 Causes
Every year, one trillion plastic single-use bags are used across the globe, or two million bags per minute. That’s a problem because plastic bags are made from petroleum, a depletable resource. According to some estimates, up to 100 million barrels of oil are used every year to make the world’s plastic bags. Yet they are used for an average of 20 minutes, and they don’t decompose.
So it’s great news that Kenya has joined several other African countries, and numerous other places worldwide, in banning the manufacture and import of all plastic bags.
Good news for Kenya. Now can they enforce it?
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