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 treaty compromises still ‘yet to be understood’
Posted on January 23, 2026 by DrRossH in GeneralGlobal tensions on display at the World Economic Forum in Davos will make it more difficult to finish a plastics treaty and could mean a less ambitious agreement.
Source: Plastics treaty compromises still ‘yet to be understood’ – Plastics News
Charlotte Davies, managing director of the United Kingdom-based environmental group Common Seas, noted rising populism, weakened multilateral institutions, a U.S. pullback from global treaties and countries prioritizing economic interests.
“These geopolitical trends are seeing us pointing toward slower progress,
“This increase in populism makes any aspect of the treaty that goes beyond national approaches much, much trickier to advance … [including] some of these core principles we’ve heard others talk about, including overarching production limits and global mechanisms around producer responsibility and even kind of global bans or controls on chemicals of concern,” she said.
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