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? Alpek closing Pennsylvania PET recycling plant as market conditions worsen – USA
Posted on January 23, 2026 by DrRossH in GeneralRecycling industry leaders see the need for drastic changes as another major plastics recycling plant is falling victim to low prices and competition from virgin resin.
Source: Alpek closing Pennsylvania PET recycling plant as market conditions worsen – Plastics News
Another major PET recycling facility is closing — shuttering million pounds of annual capacity — as tough market conditions continue to take their toll.
Alpek SAB de CV is closing its 270,000-square-foot plant near Reading, Pa., throwing a hundred people out of work at the location that’s had a checkered financial history since opening in 2020.
If the USA has the manufacturing demand to raw plastic mateiral, then theey have to impose a virgin polastics tax to get an even cost basis. This would allow products to be made with recycled content.
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