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? 
The Last Straw | Litter Free Coast and Sea – Dorset & East Devon – UK
Posted on December 18, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Straws
Source: The Last Straw | Litter Free Coast and Sea – Dorset & East Devon
- The UK and USA throw away 550 million plastic straws A DAY
- On average, a plastic straw is used for 20 minutes before it ends up in the bin
- Even when the straw begins to break down they don’t actually break down but turn into tiny bits of microplastic which damage the marine environment and even end up inside of us.
- Every plastic straw that was ever made still exists in some form.
- Plastic straws are one of the top 10 items picked up at beach cleans worldwide
- Entanglement, ingestion and habitat disruption all result from plastic ending up in the spaces where animals live. In our oceans alone, plastic debris outweighs zooplankton by a ratio of 36-to-1.
- Everything suffers: tourism, recreation, business, the health of humans, animals, fish and birds—because of plastic pollution.
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