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? CarbonLite to build PET recycling plant in Texas – News – Plastics News
Posted on October 21, 2013 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsCarbonLite to build PET recycling plant in Texas – News – Plastics News.
Construction will begin later this year on the bottle-to-bottle plant that will employ 100 people and take in about 1.6 billion used bottles a year. The bottles will be turned into a high-grade raw material to make new bottles for Nestle Waters North America, according to CarbonLite.
“The most sustainable bottle of all is the one made from earlier generations of itself,”
Farahnik said the average U.S. recycling rate for PET is just below 30 percent with some sates as low as 10 percent and those with bottle deposit laws topping out at about 65 percent.
When CarbonLite opened its first plant in Riverside, Calif., in late 2011, company officials heralded “the end of the disposables age, and the beginning of the ‘remakeables’ age.”
With help from state governments to bring in bottle deposit schemes, the recycling of bottles would all go up substantially. Up to 80% and more in most places.
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