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? Mexican PET recycler working to raise public awareness
Posted on July 20, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsMexican PET recycler working to raise public awareness – News – Plastics News.
Communication, especially with children, is the key to increasing recycling, he said.
.And just like in the United States, the marketing and strategy director said, some adults in Mexico might not listen to other adults when it comes to recycling, but they just might listen to their kids.
“If somebody in Mexico is driving his car, opens the window, dumps a bottle, nobody will tell anything to that guy. But maybe his children sitting beside him (will say something). So the environmental awareness of children is really powerful, so we are working on this educational progress to really make a change,” Camara said.
PETStar receives its recycled PET through its bottle gathering subsidiary, Avangard, which employs 1,100 of its own workers directly and operates eight collection facilities. Avangard also partners with multiple collection partners and helps support 24,000 pickers who scavenge used PET bottles, often at landfills, the company said.
The processing company can reprocess up to 3 billion bottles per year, Camara said
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