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? 
Why business leaders should lobby politicians to lead on sustainability – UK
Posted on May 15, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
Tony Blair meeting with business leaders
“While companies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuels are highly effective in preventing change by being well funded and tightly organised, progressive businesses are shying away from political engagement, are not putting in the necessary resources and are not effectively collaborating.
At the end of the day, none of these reasons or excuses (to not change) are good enough. Senior executives often lament the lack of statesman-like behaviour of modern politicians. However, the most basic management training recommends that you stop complaining about what others are not doing and take responsibility for doing it yourself.
The fact is that progressive businesses have both the power and the resources to help the process of political change and they need to do it in a transparent way and not replicate the fossil fuel lobby which is furiously working behind closed doors.”
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