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? BASF to use New Energy’s pyrolysis oil derived from waste tires in production at Ludwigshafen – Europe
Posted on August 1, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingBASF and New Energy, a Hungarian technology company specialised in the pyrolysis of waste tires have signed an uptake supply agreement under which New Energy will supply BASF with up to 4,000 tonnes/year of pyrolysis oil derived from waste tires, the companies announced in a joint statement released yesterday.
The pyrolysis oil supplied by New Energy is used by BASF for production at Ludwigshafen, thereby replacing fossil resources. The share of recycled raw material is allocated to certain products – Ccycled products – manufactured there, using a third-party audited mass balance approach. The products have the exact same properties as those manufactured from fossil feedstock. Customers can therefore further process them in the same way as conventionally manufactured products and use them in applications with high demands regarding quality and performance, such as automotive parts.
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