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? Australian entrepreneur Priyanka Bakaya aims for new recycling facility in Australia by 2019
Posted on December 5, 2017 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News
The fire destroying SKM Recycling facility in Melbourne last year has paved the way Australian entrepreneur Priyanka Bakaya to open a new recycling facility in Victoria within two years.
Source: Australian entrepreneur Priyanka Bakaya aims for new recycling facility in Australia by 2019
“About 300 million tonnes of plastic is produced globally each year, and only roughly 10 per cent gets recycled,” she says.
“We are now living in the plastic age and it is estimated that there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050.”
“There are over 5 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean, and we add a staggering 8 million tons of plastic waste to our oceans each year.”
She says plastic waste can sit in landfills for hundreds of years without decomposing. But with Renewlogy’s technology the company can convert every 10 tonnes of plastic to roughly 2500 gallons of fuel.
“It costs roughly $30 a barrel to produce diesel which can be sold for roughly $70 a barrel,” she says.
Such a plant would be great for Melbourne. There is far too much plastic not being reused or recycled in Melbourne but being dumped or littered.
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