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? Texas city wants state to declare plastic pellet leaks an industrial pollutant – USA
Posted on November 12, 2025 by DrRossH in GeneralGalveston city officials are asking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to give state regulators “clear direction” that leaks of plastic pellets should be considered industrial pollution.
Source: Texas city wants state to declare plastic pellet leaks an industrial pollutant | Plastics News
“Right now nurdles are not really considered pollution in most regards,” said Bob Brown, a city council member in Galveston. “What [Galveston’s] resolution was asking is that the state work with TCEQ to make it more of a pollution agent, and in that way, we can begin to regulate it, monitor it and begin to have some control.”
Environment Texas said state officials have shown an interest in talking about the issue, which gained steam after a Formosa Plastics plant in Texas settled a pellet leakage lawsuit in 2019 for $50 million, one of the largest Clean Water Act settlements from a private lawsuit.
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