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? 
Packaging reform enters supply chain spotlight – Australia
Posted on May 21, 2026 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource: Packaging reform enters supply chain spotlight – PKN Packaging News
The roundtable brought together representatives from the dairy, red meat, poultry, food and grocery, plastics and packaging sectors to assess the growing impact of global supply disruptions on Australia’s plastics and polymer supply chains.
The statement positions packaging reform not only as an environmental imperative, but increasingly as a matter of sovereign manufacturing capability and national resilience.
Ayres said the federal government was closely monitoring risks across polymer and plastic resin supply chains to ensure Australia could respond quickly to emerging shortages.
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