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? GreenDot Group, Shell Chemicals Europe B.V. enter pyrolysis oil collaboration for circular polymers – Europe
Posted on August 1, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
Six months of discussion between Green Dot and Shell Chemicals Europe on how to approach a collaboration has ended in success: since March of this year, GreenDot has been supplying pyrolysis oil derived from household plastic waste to Shell Chemicals Europe that will ultimately use it for the production of circular chemicals.
As pyrolysis oil cannot be used as is, Shell Chemicals Europe is currently constructing a new pyrolysis oil Market Development Upgrader (MDU) unit at the Shell Chemicals Park in Moerdijk, the Netherlands that will improve its purity and make it suitable for use as feedstock for the its naphtha crackers. The unit will have an annual capacity of 50,000 tonnes and use technology from BlueAlp, with which Shell entered into a joint venture last year.
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