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? Mol Group to close two plastic recycling plants in Hungary – EU
Posted on November 10, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingMol Group will cease operations at its plastics recycling subsidiary Remat Zrt. by year end.The Hungarian oil and gas company acquired Remat in April 2022.Remat operates two PE and PP recycling plants in Tiszaújváros and Rakamaz, Hungary, as well as a logistics hub in Bratislava, Slovakia…
Source: Mol Group to close two plastic recycling plants in Hungary | Sustainable Plastics
European recyclers are grappling with high energy costs and soaring input waste cost while being undercut by cheaper imported materials. Closures of European plastics recycling plants rapidly accelerated in 2025. A sharp decline in domestic production, increased imports, and rising economic pressures are forcing company closures. Between January and July 2025, Europe lost almost the same amount of capacity as in the whole of 2024. As of August, capacity lost was three times the amount lost in 2023
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