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? 
PepsiCo bows to shareholder pressure and agrees to establish single-use bottle reduction goals
Posted on March 23, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPepsiCo has agreed to develop a time-bound goal to deliver a certain percentage of its packaging through reusable or refillable systems by the end of the year after being pressured by shareholder advocacy group As You Saw.
The company says it is now assessing its capabilities, infrastructure and consumer preferences before setting specific targets by 2023.
Last year, As You Saw released a statement noting that despite PepsiCo’s claims on environmental sustainability, the company is continuously ranked as one of the world’s worst single-use plastics polluters.
In its statement, As You Saw said: “Despite taking actions to reduce virgin plastic use and increase recycling, PepsiCo has been cited as a top global plastic packaging polluter for four consecutive years.”
“Experts believe refillable bottles are key to addressing plastic pollution and can increase financial return, yet the company reports zero percent of packaging delivered in refillable containers, lagging its peers.”
PepsiCo has agreed to conceive plastic reduction strategies by the end of this year.“Pepsi’s packaging generates enormous amounts of plastic pollution with 2.3 million metric tons of plastic packaging annually, the equivalent of 140,000 bottles per minute. Single-use bottles are far more likely to be improperly disposed of and to become ocean pollution, harming marine life.”
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