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? 
Soft plastic recycling returns to Sydney’s inner west – Australia
Posted on April 29, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
Soft plastic recycling is returning to select Inner West supermarkets following advocacy from Inner West Council.
Source: Soft plastic recycling returns to Sydney’s inner west – Inside Waste
Soft plastic recycling is returning to select Inner West supermarkets following advocacy from Inner West Council, demand from the local community and strong support from Woolworths.
This follows the sustained action of Inner West Council on soft plastics recycling, including expanding door-to-door household soft plastics collections, continued advocacy to supermarkets to bring back in-store collections, and ongoing work to amend Council’s procurement policy to use soft plastic aggregate in local projects like road building, construction, soft-fall and street furniture.
Taking soft plastic and making garden furniture out of it is NOT recycling. It is just repurposing the waste. Recycling is getting the plastic back to similar manufacturers so they do not have to use virgin plastic to make their products. Repurposing does not stop the manufacturers from using virgin plastic time and time again.
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