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? Recycler Maine Plastics shuts down -USA
Posted on March 29, 2014 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsRecycler Maine Plastics shuts down – News – Plastics News.
Maine Plastics Inc. — one of North America’s largest plastics recyclers — has closed its doors.
“Due to the actions taken by our bank, Maine Plastics can no longer purchase or take delivery of your recyclables.
Maine was No. 8 on Plastics News’ most recent ranking of North American recyclers and brokers with annual throughput of 178 million pounds in 2012. Officials said in a new PN survey form that the firm’s volume had fallen to 162 million pounds in 2013, a decline of almost 9 percent. Maine did about 90 percent of its business in post-industrial recycling, with the remainder in post-consumer work.
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