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? Delivery of Australia’s largest PET recycling plant underway – Australia
Posted on February 9, 2021 by DrRossH in GeneralSee source article
Construction is now underway on Australia’s largest end-to-end PET recycling facility in Albury-Wodonga, which will see the equivalent of around one billion plastic bottles recycled each year.
The raw plastic material that Circular Plastics Australia PET will recycle each year will be used to produce more than 20,000 tonnes of new recycled PET bottles and food packaging.
“This new facility for PET plastic will recycle the containers collected through the NSW Return and Earn scheme and Cleanaway’s Material Recovery Facilities, helping create a domestic circular economy,” said Vik Bansal, Cleanaway CEO and managing director.
This is good news for the Container deposit schemes and all the bottles they will collect.
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