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? Chemical recycling struggles to prove itself to skeptics -USA
Posted on July 7, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingA splashy success story could sway skeptical investors and policymakers with a tangible example of how the technology can work, proving the case that it should get more funding and support.
Source: Chemical recycling struggles to prove itself to skeptics | Plastics News
“Advanced recycling is a great opportunity for us but it takes time to set up the capacities,” Wallace said. “We’ve been working with industry partners to try to find availability of materials that can then flow through to us.”
He said supply problems are industry-wide.
“This is driving a tremendous amount of demand for high-quality recycled content,” Wallach said.
But he also suggested government policy could increase supply, including from deposit return systems, “pay-as-you-throw” municipal curbside systems that charge residents more for waste disposal than recycling, and extended producer responsibility programs for packaging.
A 2022 McKinsey study said advanced recycling could grow from its very small levels today up to 8 percent of global plastics demand by 2030, if significant investments are made.
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