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? Exports of plastic waste | Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment – Australia
Posted on May 25, 2021 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting RegulationsPEF is plastic waste that is processed with other waste material ready for direct use as a fuel in high energy intensity facilities such as cement kilns.
Source: Exports of plastic waste | Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Phases
The Rules come into effect in two phases:
From 1 July 2021, you can only export waste plastics that have been:
- sorted into single resin or polymer type, or
- processed with other materials into processed engineered fuel.
You will no longer be able to export mixed waste plastics.
From 1 July 2022, you can only export waste plastics that have been:
- sorted into single resin or polymer type and further processed, for example flaked or pelletised, or
- processed with other materials into processed engineered fuel.
And you will need:
- a licence to export your waste
- to declare each consignment to us before you declare to the Australian Border Force’s Integrated Cargo System.
The definition of PEF seems to be a little unclear. We hope the government has it tightly defined so it can’t be abused and loads of mixed plastic sent off shore again
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