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? 
Recycling being stockpiled and dumped in landfill as glass market crashes – Australia
Posted on August 9, 2017 by DrRossH in Landfills and Disposal
One recycling company is going public to raise awareness about the issues being faced by industry due to what it describes as a failure of regulation.
Source: Recycling being stockpiled and dumped in landfill as glass market crashes
“Some governments are very responsive and are doing everything they can, and some governments are caught napping or simply hope it would all go away,” he said.
In Victoria, Mr Musgrove said “hundreds of millions of dollars being raised as revenue from the landfill levy” was not being spent.
“Recycling is effectively being taxed to prop up a state government budget,” he said.
Mr Musgrove hit out at regulators and governments, calling for action to be taken before the crisis becomes a disaster.
“There’s no incentive to invest and there’s no co-investment by government, or very, very limited co-investment by government,” he said.
“It costs jobs, it costs companies.
“We need ministers to bang their heads … together and come up with a national strategy, a national coordinated response.”
The incompetence in the governments in Australia to act with the right decisions is clearly shown again.
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