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? Borealis to convert captured carbon dioxide into polyolefins -Finland
Posted on August 21, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics made from atmospheric carbon can be produced using the same manufacturing equipment and recycled in the same way as fossil-based products
Source: Borealis to convert captured carbon dioxide into polyolefins | Sustainable Plastics
Infinium is a US-based producer of electrofuels, also known as efuels, a class of synthetic fuels manufactured using captured carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide.
The company will supply Borealis with its eNaptha, a drop-in alternative to traditional fossil-based naphtha made from waste carbon dioxide (CO2). Infinium produces eNaptha using renewable power, water, and captured CO2. It says the product has negative carbon intensity at plant gate, contains no aromatics, and has high paraffin content.
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