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? Industrial recycler adds capacity in North Carolina
Posted on December 1, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsPlastics News – Industrial recycler adds capacity in North Carolina.
We have developed a post-industrial single-stream program for customers that we manage,” he said. “Our post-industrial stream is focused on plastics, but it also offers mixed trailer solutions.
“Our main focus is post-industrial plastics,” said Duska. “The majority of our work is in packaging and process scrap. We handle flexible films on rolls and bulk including [polyethylene], polypropylene, biaxially oriented polypropylene film, as well as bags and stretch film.”
He said the company also reprocesses some multi-layer materials and all rigid plastics including engineered grades and filled material from injection, blow and extrusion applications.
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