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? Close the Loop installs new recycling line – Australia
Posted on August 8, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingClose the Loop has installed a Genox recycling line from Applied Machinery to handle PE and PP materials including bottles, retail displays, tubs and crates.
Source: Close the Loop installs new recycling line
CtL has a number of recycling lines, the majority of which revolve around the challenging area of recycling soft plastics. To protect products from deterioration, soft plastic packaging contains multiple different types of plastic joined together in thin layers. At end of life, this creates issues as these materials cannot be separated, leading to a low grade of recycling feedstock with limited use.
The company specialises in recycling imaging products, ink and toner cartridges, bottles and the toner itself. It comes as a surprise to many people that toner powder is actually a finely ground plastic. Close to 100 million cartridges have been recycled over the past 20 years in Australia alone. Though the number is impressive, many still end up in landfill. The recycled raw material is supplied back to a number of industry partners and cartridges are returned to the original supplier for remanufacturing. CtL also manufactures recycled products such as mailing satchels and horticulture bags.
The company also takes large volumes of post-consumer mixed soft plastics as a feedstock for its asphalt additive product, TonerPlas, and its recycled plastic injection-moulding resin, rFlex. TonerPlas improves the longevity of roads and has been used in resurfacing projects across Australia including the Monash and M80 freeway upgrades in Victoria.
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