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? 
One couple’s mission to live plastic-free
Posted on May 3, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsCleaning up tonnes of marine debris along the Australian coastline has this couple determined to live a plastic-free life.
Source: One couple’s mission to live plastic-free
Days, weeks and months spent picking up marine debris along Australia’s coastline has Natalie Woods and Daniel Smith determined to live a plastic-free life.
And the founders of Clean Coast Collective are now on a mission to draw attention to the amount of plastic we use unnecessarily every day.
Three years ago the couple were both working in government jobs in Canberra, spending their weekends surfing at different beaches on the New South Wales south coast.
“We just kept noticing so much plastic rubbish everywhere, even on remote beaches,” Mr Smith said.
“Once we dug a little deeper and discovered just how bad the plastic pollution problem is, it became like a mozzie bite — we couldn’t ignore it.
Australia needs to clean up its own back yard first with simple acts like cash for containers and plastic bag bans, replacing plastic straws. These would go a long way to improving our environment, beaches, parks and road sides.
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