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? Australia’s Samsara boosts funding to commercialize depolymerization
Posted on August 1, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingAn Australian company that is commercializing an infinite plastics recycling process has just raised another A$100 million (US$65.5 million) in a new funding round.
Source: Australia’s Samsara boosts funding to commercialize depolymerization | Sustainable Plastics
The Samsara Eco Pty. Ltd. process uses enzymes to break down plastics into their original monomers.
The company has previously told Plastics News the enzymes’ ability to break plastic down to its original monomers means products made from Samsara-developed plastic can be endlessly recycled because the quality does not degrade over time, hence the term “infinite recycling.”
In mid-July, Riley told PN that Samsara Eco’s first proof-of-concept facility is operating at Mitchell, in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), and construction of an “innovation campus” in Jerrabomberra, in New South Wales, is in progress.
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