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? CEFC, Woolworths back Samsara’s infinite recycling – Australia
Posted on March 31, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSamsara launched last year, and claims it has developed a new way to infinitely recycle plastic which it says will help end plastic pollution. The company says the technology uses enzymes to break plastic down to its core building blocks, which can then be used to recreate brand new plastic.
“The current approach to recycling is simply inefficient and ill-equipped to handle the plastic pollution crisis we are faced with today,” said Paul Riley, Samsara’s founder and CEO.
“If we are serious about addressing this problem in a meaningful way, we need a new approach to how plastic is made and recycled.
“Instead of mining for fossil fuels to create new plastics or relying on current recycling methods, which result in only nine per cent being actually recycled, we can take plastic that already exists and infinitely recycle it.
Sounds good but so many hurdles to overcome to make a commercially viable system. Recycling of plastic has had many big planned start ups over the last 40 years and all have failed.
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