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? Norway’s first plastic sorting plant enters commissioning
Posted on April 30, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
Tomra and Plastretur have overseen the placing of the first bale of plastic waste on the conveyor belt at the new Områ facility
Source: Norway’s first plastic sorting plant enters commissioning | Sustainable Plastics
Områ is equipped with Tomra sorting technology at a scale not previously deployed in Norway. The facility will enable Norway to fulfil its national ambition to take care of its own plastic waste. It will be an important part of the new national infrastructure for the collection and recycling of plastic. It should also provide motivation for further investments within the recycling industry nationally.
The new plant will accept mixed plastic waste sourced from municipalities and mechanically separated and recovered. The plastic waste will be sorted into seven types of plastic which will be processed into high-quality fractions for recycling.
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