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? 
Plastics industry has known for years that it’s polluting oceans
Posted on February 4, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
But it has chosen to ‘deny, confuse, and fight regulation.’
Source: Plastics industry has known for years that it’s polluting oceans
Steven Feit, lead study author and an attorney for CIEL, said in a press release:
“Unfortunately, the answer to both when the plastic industry knew their products would contribute to massive public harms and what they did with that information suggests they followed Big Oil’s playbook on climate change: deny, confuse, and fight regulation and effective solutions.”
It’s depressing to think how different would be now if the plastics industry had acknowledged its inherent troubles a half-century ago and taken the responsible action
No new news here. This industry is as greedy as the petroleum and tobacco industry. They know their products are detrimental yet deny, challenge results and lobbied governments all the time to get this topic quashed.
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