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? Branching into more materials, NextLife opens recycling plant in Arkansas
Posted on November 9, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics News – Branching into more materials, NextLife opens recycling plant in Arkansas.
“We will collect waste, clean waste, process waste and turn it back into consumer products,” said Whaley. “Our goal is to have to be a complete waste-to-recovery facility that does every step in the process.”
“We need more people in Arkansas because we will be handled a lot of material with our asset recovery services,” Whaley said. “We are handling a massive amount of recoverable materials.”
He said that at the present time materials such as glass, aluminum, corrugated and metals are shipped to other recyclers. “We want to remove those materials from landfills for our customers.”
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