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? 
What are the top 10 marine waste items? – Australia
Posted on April 21, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
More polystyrene is being collected from the nation’s largest waterways and marine environments than any other type of plastic, supporting a national government push to phase out its use in consumer products by the end of the year, according to new research from Conservation Volunteers Australia released today.
Top 10 litter items identified in 8 of the nation’s largest waterway catchments flowing out into the Great South Reef by Conservation Volunteers Australia crews since September 2020 up to the recent floods:
- Polystyrene
- Hard plastic
- Soft plastic
- Food wrapper
- Cigarette butt
- Bottle cap
- Paper/cardboard
- Glass
- Utensil/plate/bowl
- Thin film bags
The 5 year long daily tide line plastic rubbish survey carried out by BeachPatrol Australia provides an in depth report on their survey on the most common types of plastic rubbish in Melbourne. www.beachpatrol.com.au
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