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? EU recycled 41% of plastic packaging waste in 2022 – Europe
Posted on October 28, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSlovakia recorded the highest recycling rate at 60%, followed by Belgium (54%), Germany and Slovenia (51%)
Source: EU recycled 41% of plastic packaging waste in 2022 | Sustainable Plastics
In 2022, an average of 36.1 kg of plastic packaging waste was generated for each person living in the EU and, out of this, 14.7 kg were recycled. Between 2012 and 2022, the amount of generated plastic packaging waste increased by 7.6 kg per capita, while the recycled amount increased by 4.0 kg.
A total of 83.4 million tonnes of packaging waste was produced in the EU, equivalent to 186.5 kg per inhabitant. Compared with 2021, this represents a decrease of 3.6 kg per inhabitant, but an increase of 31.7 kg compared with 2012. Of the total packaging waste generated, 41% was paper and cardboard, 19% was plastic, 19% glass, 16% wood, and 5% metal.
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