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? 
NSW bans single-use plastic bags, ACT cracks down on straws – Australia
Posted on May 25, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
New South Wales will introduce the first of its single-use plastic bans next week, while the ACT Government prepares to broaden the bans it introduced last year.
New South Wales remains the last state or territory yet to crack down on single-use plastics in any form, but that is set to change as its ban on lightweight single-use bags comes into effect from 1 June 2022.
James Griffin, Minister for the Environment, said the ban on bags would be followed up by a suite of additional plastic bans in November.
“I think all of us can see the impact plastic pollution is having on our environment, which is why we’re making major changes in NSW this year,” he said.
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