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? 
EREMA technology closes the loop on post-consumer plastics – Australia
Posted on April 10, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe latest EREMA technology, the INTAREMA TVEplus, closes the loop on post-consumer plastics such as low-density polyethylene (LDPE).
Source: EREMA technology closes the loop on post-consumer plastics – Waste Management Review
An additional 650,000 tonnes a year of waste, including plastic, paper, glass, and tyres, will flood Australia’s recycling industry when the full waste export ban comes into effect in mid-2024, according to the Library of Congress.
Landfill will likely be the destination for many of the plastics, particularly film, without mechanical drivers for a circular economy.
“While clear plastics and post-industrial plastics are relatively easy to recycle; contaminated industrial and post-consumer plastics can be difficult.
“Post-consumer plastics is a big headache for recyclers. This is one piece of the puzzle to avoid sending it to landfill.
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