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? Dow pulls the plug on Böhlen chemical recycling project with Mura – Europe
Posted on August 14, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingDow has abandoned the construction of what it believes would have been the largest chemical recycling plant in Europe, reports financial data provider S&P Global.
Source: Dow pulls the plug on Böhlen chemical recycling project with Mura | Sustainable Plastics
The cancellation of the plans follows Dow’s decision to permanently close its steam cracker at Böhlen by the end of 2027, along with two other European basic chemical plants. The recycling plant was to supply a sustainable substitute – recycled plastic waste that currently goes to incinerators or landfills – for naphtha as a cracker feedstock, reducing the need for new fossil fuels. Co-location of the Mura facility at Dow was a way to significantly reduce the cost of scaling the chemical recycling facility, while allowing carbon emissions to be reduced by minimising transportation of the offtake. Moreover, gas output from the recycling process could be converted back to plastics, thereby ensuring no by-products go to waste.
However, with the closure of the cracker, the economic benefits for the recycling plant also appear to have vanished. The cracker has been out of service since July due to a technical malfunction.
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