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A New Plant in Indiana Uses a Process Called ‘Pyrolysis’ to Recycle Plastic Waste. Critics Say It’s Really Just Incineration – USA
Posted on September 18, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource “The problem with pyrolysis is we should not be producing more fossil fuels,” said Judith Enck, a former regional director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the founder and executive director of Beyond Plastics, an environmental group. “We need...
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Europe/New Zealand leading the way in CDS refund
Posted on September 13, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations, Plastic RecyclingSource The latest European state to announce adoption of a container deposit/refund scheme is Austria. Commencing in 2024, Austria will launch its scheme with a €0.25 Euro deposit value, equivalent of around A$0.40cents. That’s four times higher than Australia’s current...
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Why advanced recycling matters – Australia
Posted on September 8, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource Advanced recycling is a buzzword that is becoming part of the narrative of the waste industry, and one that had a whole session dedicated to it at this year’s Waste Expo in Coffs Harbour. A panel discussion, chaired by...
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Why advanced recycling matters – Australia
Posted on August 23, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Recyclingsource “The AFGC has been awarded a grant from the government and we’re creating the national plastics recycling scheme to recycle a targeted 190,000 tonnes of soft plastics,” said Cosier. “If those who aren’t aware, a third...
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Tasmanian govt expands use of recycled materials in roads – Australia
Posted on August 2, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource “The new plant incorporates cutting edge technology that supports production of road surfacing material with a high proportion of recyclable material,” he said. “Reconophalt is a…road surfacing product developed by Downer incorporating material that would otherwise end up in...
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How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled – USA
Posted on June 19, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. All of it is buried. "To me that felt like it was a betrayal of the public trust," she said. "I had been lying to people ... unwittingly." Rogue, like...
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The troublesome waste stream that is soft plastics
Posted on June 9, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource Soft plastics are the bane of the waste industry. Hard to collect, a noxious and hazardous substance to the environment, and an item that can take up a lot of time in Material Recovery Facilities when being recycled. Like politics and...
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What is hydrothermal liquefaction?
Posted on June 8, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource The sad reality is that 87 per cent of plastic is still not recycled in Australia, according to the Plastic Waste Advanced Recycling Feasibility Study: Geelong-Altona Industrial Corridor 2021. To achieve the Australian government’s ambitious National Waste Management Target of 80...
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Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work
Posted on June 1, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource The problem with recycling plastic lies not with the concept or process but with the material itself. The first problem is that there are thousands of different plastics, each with its own composition and characteristics. They all include different...
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Plastic waste meets its (re)maker – Australia
Posted on May 25, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource It will re-purpose all types of plastics (1-7) to be ultra-low sulphur diesel, wax and naphtha to produce other plastics and will be capable of processing up to 200,000 tonnes of waste plastics annually, predominantly from NSW. “The last...
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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?