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? APR Chemcycle soft plastics facility closer to fruition – Australia
Posted on September 23, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingVictoria is a step closer to its first soft plastics recycling facility with EPA Victoria issuing a Development Licence to APR Chemcycle.
Source: APR Chemcycle soft plastics facility closer to fruition – Inside Waste
APR Chemcycle proposed to reprocess waste plastic by pyrolysis to generate commercial grade oil as product at a facility to be built at Rowsley Station Rd, Maddingley.
Once built and operational, the facility will be Victoria’s first operational Advanced Chemical Recycling (ACR) facility, which will recycle soft plastics into oil to be used by the plastic manufacturing industry in the production of new plastic
The plastics reprocessed are “soft plastics” with Sustainability Victoria providing funding to APR.
The plant has a processing capacity of 10 tonnes of waste plastic per day. Read more about the application and the Development Licence assessment process here.
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