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? 
Shore towns should match Absecon Island balloon-release ban – USA
Posted on March 21, 2017 by DrRossH in Balloons
It’s unanimous. All four municipalities on Absecon Island now have banned releasing lighter-than-air balloons. We hope it starts a trend among Jersey Shore municipalities.
Source: Shore towns should match Absecon Island balloon-release ban
Plastic balloons, very durable and usually shiny, are the most dangerous and typically not used in mass balloon releases. Those are done with latex balloons. When Longport was passing its balloon-release ban in December, it was opposed by the Balloon Council, a national group of balloon manufacturers and sellers. The group called released latex balloons “environmentally friendly” because the materials are natural and eventually degrade.
But the repeated documentation of animals killed by released balloons, including latex ones, shows that argument to be pointless. Besides, if nothing else, balloon releases are littering on a massive scale. And the positive argument for balloon releases is … what? People like to see things float into the air and away?
Surely there are better ways to celebrate in the 21st century than putting wildlife at risk and littering.
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