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? Closed Loop Recycling out to become biggest milk bottle recycler in the world. – UK
Posted on April 26, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsThe new plastic milk bottle recycling line is part of a 12 million pound ($20.1 million) investment strategy which CLR claimed would make it the biggest recycler of milk bottles in the world.
The new line will raise the plant’s capacity to 55,000 metric tons a year, the company said.
Touring the facility with CLR chief executive Chris Dow, the minister said the new line would create jobs and growth in a “growing green industry.”
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