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? Concerns over PCR availability in Europe
Posted on April 27, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingAluminium Deutschland is concerned that the lack of high-quality post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials being produced in Europe will cause major issues when the EU’s 2030 regulations come into play, and says a worldwide race for the PCR materials is already on.
Although seven years away, Aluminium Deutschland (AD) says the lack of high-quality stock material available and coming on stream is already concerning. In November, the EU Commission presented a draft of a new regulation for packaging and packaging waste, which states, among other things, that plastic packaging must contain a certain minimum amount of post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials from 1 January 2030.
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