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 to ban single-use plastics: Kate Washington frustrated by lack of action – Australia
Posted on November 30, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: NSW to ban single-use plastics: Kate Washington frustrated by lack of action – News Of The Area
“The New South Wales Government has come last because the environment is its lowest priority.
“We support this bill, but in doing so, we would remind this government that protecting our environment is a race.
“It is a race to save koalas from land clearing approved by this government a race to save our rivers from the bungled irresponsible water policy, it is a race to save our state from a premier who says that any action on climate change is a gratuitous waste,” Ms Washington said.
“It is a race and NSW keeps coming last and sadly, today is no different,” she concluded.
Single-use plastics in New South Wales will be phased out by 1 November 2022, a year after the Bill was passed in Parliament.
Just looking at this photo shows how uninterested the government is in this poor woman’s fight to reduce single use plastic. The chamber is full of empty chairs except for one person who is so uninterested he is on his smart phone. Plus he is holding a single use plastic water bottle.
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