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? 
Litter traps for plastic debris installed along Beaches
Posted on December 1, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThree trial litter traps were installed by PWS along beaches of Port Melbourne. The litter traps cover the outlets of storm water drains that empty on to the beaches. Previously when a large storm event would occur, plastic litter on the nearby streets would get washed down the drain and out on to the beaches. In an attempt to quantify the amount of litter coming from the storm water drains, these three trail traps were installed. The local council will be emptying the traps and recording what debris they are collecting from them. Should the traps be judged a success the council will consider installing further traps. There are approximately 30 storm water drains that drain on to the beaches that have no litter traps on them. PWS fabricated the traps and installed them on site. See local pap
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