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 Choking Beaches
Posted on January 23, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
A recent walk along the Esplanade in Melbourne over the weekend found a lot of plastic debris blown up and caught in a scrub bush. See this video. By anyones standards this is unacceptable. Once it had been collected it and laid out on the footpath for passers by to see, you could see the look of disgust they gave. How many would have done anything about it though? Until we get enough people willing to say this is unacceptable and will make the effort to do something about it, be it pick it up, notify their local council, send pictures to the local media to print, and stopping from buying plastic items, then scenes similar to what this video shows will still be a common site.
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