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? 
Kroger’s plan to ditch plastic bags unlikely to boost paper industry – USA
Posted on September 3, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
The war against plastic bags is gaining steam.
Source: Kroger’s plan to ditch plastic bags unlikely to boost paper industry
The Kroger grocery store chain, which owns the Longview Fred Meyer, announced Aug. 23 that by 2025 it will become the first U.S. retailer to phase out plastic bags.
Bagging changes at the Longview Fred Meyer are still a ways off. The company does not have a set timeline for the phase-out, other than the goal of 2025, he said. Giving its nearly 2,800 grocery stores seven years to reach that goal gives customers a chance to adapt, Temple said.
“It’s exciting because we decided this is the right thing to do, and we’ll figure it out as needed,” Temple said.
7 years! How many acres of land are going to be destroyed and wildlife choked to death by then? That is a long time. How about 2 years?
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