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? 
Plastic ban along Ganges in Uttarakhand remains on paper
Posted on August 21, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
The ban on plastic along Ganges, to free the river of the menace, remains on paper as authorities have shown little interest in cracking the whip on offenders in the face of strong opposition from traders’ lobby.
Source: Plastic ban along Ganges in Uttarakhand remains on paper
However, the use of plastic, in the form of bags, bottles, cans and other items, has been rampant and open in places like Haridwar and Rishikesh, where thousands of Hindu pilgrims throng, especially during festivals and auspicious days.
Authorities have done little to contain the menace, with the Haridwar Municipal Corporation seizing only 76 kg of polythene and fining different traders Rs 2.5 lakh in the last seven months.
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