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Freeing Trevor to drive the circular bus – Australia
Posted on February 22, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling, Plastic Waste NewsSource: Freeing Trevor to drive the circular bus - Inside Waste There is no chance we can achieve a Circular Economy by 2025, but achieving the 80 per cent diversion from landfill Target in the National Waste Action plan by...
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Let’s Get Circular; It Is the Only Way We Won’t End Up Buried in Garbage
Posted on September 14, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling, Plastic Waste NewsSource Article 75 years ago, if you wanted a cup of coffee or a bite to eat, you went to a restaurant or diner, sat down and got served your coffee in a porcelain mug and ate off a china...
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Nestlé develops reduced plastic packaging for Vittel
Posted on September 13, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling, Plastic Waste NewsSource Article The Vittel GO system consists of a reusable hard protective case designed to hold 50cl refills of Vittel natural mineral water that are made with 40 per cent less plastic than a traditional 50cl Vittel bottle. As the...
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Unilever R&D lead on plastics circularity – Australia
Posted on September 13, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingOriginal Article In Australia, we consume 3.5 million tonnes of plastic annually and five kilograms of plastic enter the ocean per person each year. That’s more than three times the global average. But in our everyday lives it can be easy to...
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The recycling myth: A plastic waste solution littered with failure
Posted on September 12, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling, Plastic Waste NewsBig Oil is touting “advanced recycling” as the solution to the world’s waste crisis. But the technology has yet to live up to its backers’ lofty claims, a Reuters review of 30 projects found. Source: The recycling myth: A plastic...
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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?