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? Erema launches biggest ever polyolefin recycling machine – Europe
Posted on October 16, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsErema is launching its biggest ever polyolefin recycling machine at Fakuma
Source: Erema launches biggest ever polyolefin recycling machine | Sustainable Plastics
“I think there will be a consolidation in the market. Someone who is selling virgin material today has the market excess. If tomorrow someone asks him to quote for 30% of the material in post-consumer, then, of course, he would like to be able to sell the material himself. I think the big suppliers of virgin material are preparing to also become the suppliers for regrind material. So yes, there will be market consolidation – companies will be acquired, or merged, and bigger groups will be created. And bigger groups will require bigger machines.
The new model has a preconditioning unit diameter of 2.30 metres and an extruder screw with a diameter of 250 millimetres, reaching a throughput of over four tonnes per hour for polyolefin regrind.
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