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? 
Los Angeles and San Diego ban polystyrene foam, other plastic products, on same day
Posted on December 9, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
California’s two largest cities passed multiple ordinances to limit single-use plastic products, including expanded polystyrene foam containers, on Tuesday.
The legislative moves in Los Angeles and San Diego were framed as complementary with each city’s zero waste goals, as well as broader state policies such as the SB 54 extended producer responsibility law. According to LA Sanitation & Environment, an estimated 97 cities and counties already have various bans on EPS foam products in the state. This includes Los Angeles County, where a policy will begin taking effect in May 2023.
While San Diego once accepted EPS foam in its curbside recycling program, with support from Dart Container Corp., the city now says that “markets for recycling of polystyrene foam are expensive, difficult to find, and the process is energy intensive and costly.”
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