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? 
Ocean Cleanup: Device launched to remove thousands of tons of plastic from ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ USA
Posted on September 9, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
A story about Science from The Independent, as featured in Newsfusion’s Science News app.
It will be so interesting to watch the progress on this. The ocean waves are relentless 24/7. But sound engineering can over come this and it looks good in these pictures.
So questions that we hope have been answered are what if the breaking waves are higher than the freeboard of the boom? Will the collected plastic just wash over top of the boom? What if the wind direction is 180 degrees out from the current direction? Will it bend it out of its horse shoe shape? and release the collected plastic.
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