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 Story Behind France’s New Ban on Plastic Dishware
Posted on September 26, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
How did an unpopular and not exactly environmentally-minded politician come to pass this progressive legislation?
Source: The Story Behind France’s New Ban on Plastic Dishware
France has recently become the first country in the world to ban plastic plates and cups. The latest in a series of controversial environmental reforms in France is set to go into effect in 2020 and is being celebrated by environmental groups and decried by manufacturing and trade unions.
France needs to stick to its policy and not let unscrupulous industry try to quash it to protect their profits.
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