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? 
Yes, Plastic Bag Recycling Is Possible — What To Know – Earth911.com
Posted on August 14, 2016 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
We talk to the director of sustainability at the world’s largest closed-loop plastic bag recycling plant about how plastic bags are recycled.
Source: Yes, Plastic Bag Recycling Is Possible — What To Know – Earth911.com
Getting rid of plastic bags is the only real answer. Recycling is done at a very small rate, about 5%. This article says people reuse them, but using them once the dumping them is not the real definition of reuse. These bags contaminate recycling streams when people put their recyclables in a plastic bag then put it in the recycle bin. The bags clog recycling machines.
The plastic bags are the number 1 item in landfills showing their ‘reuse’ is not really reuse but delayed disposal by about a week. Not a good situation.
Getting rid of the bags by direct bans or a charge is what is really needed.
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