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? 
Australian circular plastics joint venture wins sustainability award
Posted on April 12, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
With many Australians embracing more sustainable practices, the nation lacked the infrastructure needed to recycle used polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into resin to make new beverage bottles. With support from federal and state governments, the PET recycling facility was built with the aim of recycling 1 billion PET bottles per year, diverting thousands of tonnes of plastic waste from landfill and reducing the need to import virgin resin.
Sanjay Dayal, Managing Director and CEO of Pact Group, said this facility is a “game changer” for plastic recycling in Australia.
The project aims to create a circular economy in which beverage bottles are recycled into new beverage bottles which will be sold and re-recycled after consuming the beverage.
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