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? Plastics recycling inching forward – USA
Posted on May 12, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingPlastics recycling is inching forward, according to all the latest data.
While some in the media are convinced that plastics recycling is a myth, the numbers show that it’s a substantial business — and growing. Whether that’s happening fast enough to head off a new wave of product bans and resin taxes is another story. But we know it’s a growing market.
Last month the annual post-consumer plastics recycling data came out. It shows the volume of post-consumer plastic recycled in the United States increased by almost 300 million pounds between 2020 and 2021. That was significant news since recycling had slumped in 2020, which experts blamed on the pandemic.
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