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? Can film be recycled into good quality pellets? – Australia
Posted on July 27, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource: Can film be recycled into good quality pellets? – Inside Waste
Ambigroup Reciclagem S.A. is a recycler of agricultural film, used agricultural irrigation tubing and other post-consumer waste in Portugal. The input materials are naturally very moist and contaminated – a challenge which the EREMA Recycling system masters, especially when it comes to recycling them into pellets.
Opportunity for Australia to efficiently recycle Agricultural PE film
Australia has a large and thriving agricultural industry. There are many untapped opportunities to recycle the discarded agricultural and hay-bale PE film after each season. Traditional and simple recycling processes prohibit effective processing of this material, due to the high level of abrasive and organic contamination. So there is a considerable untapped opportunity for plastics film recycling.
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