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? Canada Plastics Pact sees long road to fix Canada’s flexible plastics recycling – Canada
Posted on January 6, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingA Canadian industry group has a pouch full of recommendations for addressing the major challenges in recycling flexible plastic packaging.
Source: Canada Plastics Pact sees long road to fix Canada’s flexible plastics recycling | Plastics News
Boosting flexible plastic packaging recycling in Canada from the current 3-4 percent recycling rate to the 25 percent-plus rate that some provinces are calling for will require years of work and sizable investments, according to a new report from the Canada Plastics Pact.
That could include more than C$100 million (US$74.8 million) on new sorting facilities, as well as better curbside collection, higher environmental fees for hard-to-recycle flexible plastics and more efforts to strengthen recycling markets to counter disruption from low-cost virgin resin, the report said.
“It’s clear that this issue is very complex, and it is not going to be solved quickly,” said Cher Mereweather, CPP managing director, during a Dec. 13 webinar to unveil its findings. “Realistically, we’re looking at a five-to-10-year horizon of continuous effort and collaboration.”
There’s a lot of government pressure in the country for better film recycling, both from the federal government and in the extended producer responsibility programs in provinces, said Charles David Mathieu-Poulin, strategic advisor for the Circular Plastics Taskforce, an industry collaborative and PRFlex member.
The provinces are pushing for more. Quebec’s EPR program, for example, has a 40 percent recycling rate target for FPP in 2027, while Ontario is aiming for 25 percent by 2026, he told the webinar.
But actual Canadawide recycling rates for FPP today are only about one-tenth of that, according to information presented at the webinar.
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