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? Cyclion Energy offers new tech for plastics recycling
Posted on September 14, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingCyclion Energy offers a recycling solution for mixed plastics and biomass currently being sent to landfill, stockpiles or in the sea.
Source: Cyclion Energy offers new tech for plastics recycling – Waste Management Review
It’s a simple explanation for a complex process of converting plastics and biomass to fuel or electricity. And it has potential to alleviate mounting rubbish and pollution problems in remote areas.
Philip Major, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cyclion Energy, has proof of concept for the patent-pending technology that liquifies and depolymerises waste. In addition, Cyclion is commencing preparations for a large-scale commercial project in the Philippines due to start in 2025. It will process up to 900 tonnes a day of municipal solid waste.
Think of it as a load of mixed waste, including rubbish bags, being emptied into the ‘washing machine’ and run through various cycles. At each cycle the waste is liquified and degraded until in the end all that’s left in the tank is inorganic matter – solid glass or metals – that can be separated and recovered.
What’s been degraded becomes an oil that can then be further processed as fuel or converted into a flammable gas to generate electricity.
Sounds a bit too good to be true, but we’ll be watching this space.
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