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’s 40 million cash backs
Posted on January 29, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
Coffs Harbour has taken up on the new container recycling scheme
Source: NSW’s 40 million cash backs
NEW South Wales residents have returned more than 40 million containers under the statewide Return and Earn container deposit scheme since collection points opened on December 1.
The Coffs Harbour community has strongly supported the scheme, with the Environmental Protection Authority revealing the reverse vending machine at the Hoey Moey Hotel has received 202,542 containers since it came online.
It is currently averaging between 13,000 – 15,000 containers a day seeing residents receive a 10-cent cashback from each bottle or container returned.
Where is the state of Victoria in all this? No where to be seen is the answer.
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