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? 
PlasticsEurope responds to Greenpeace’s ‘Trashed’ report
Posted on May 28, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsSource: PlasticsEurope responds to Greenpeace’s ‘Trashed’ report
The organization released photo and video evidence showing that plastic bags and packaging from the U.K. and Germany are being dumped and burned across southern Turkey.
PlasticsEurope, the Brussels-based pan-European association of plastics manufacturers, has now released a statement in which it condemns the practice, calling for stricter enforcement of the controls on waste shipments and better cooperation between the enforcement authorities on a country level.
Australia is about to introduce new laws on restricting plastic waste export. However the laws appear to be quite non specific and it would appear that unscrupulous operators who do not care about plastic pollution will still be able to con their way through this. It is not to hard to imagine this discussion being necessary in another 5 years when the loops holes have been made abundantly clear,
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