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? 
Whale dies after swallowing nearly 30kg of rubbish
Posted on April 11, 2018 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
Plastic bags, sacks of raffia straw, ropes, nets and a drum are among the trash uncovered from the digestive tract of a juvenile sperm whale that washed up on a beach.
Source: Whale dies after swallowing nearly 30kg of rubbish
Twenty-nine kilograms of rubbish including plastic bags, sacks of raffia straw, ropes, nets and a drum were uncovered from the whale’s digestive tract by the local El Valle Wildlife Recovery Centre.
The whale would have been unable to digest or excrete the rubbish, experts said, resulting in its death.
It likely died of peritonitis, an inflammation of the tissue that lines the abdomen, which is usually caused by an infection or a hole in the intestines.
How awful that our rubbish has such a toll on these majestic animals. We all should be so ashamed.
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