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? VIC plastics recycling facility gains EPA licence – Australia
Posted on September 10, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingVictoria is one step closer to its first soft plastics recycling facility in Maddingley with EPA Victoria issuing a Development Licence.
Source: VIC plastics recycling facility gains EPA licence – Waste Management Review
APR Chemcycle proposed to reprocess waste plastic by pyrolysis- a chemical recycling process- to generate commercial grade oil which will then be used by the plastic manufacturing industry in the production of new plastic.
Sustainability Victoria will prove $250,000 in funding to APR Plastics to help create the facility.
The funding will allow APR Plastics to move from its pilot research phase, capable of processing up to one tonne of plastic per day (365 tonnes per annum) to its commercial and operational phase.
This being the purchase and installation of a modular $3.8 million plant with a processing capacity of five tonnes per day (1800 tonnes per annum).
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