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? 
Plastic waste meets its (re)maker – Australia
Posted on May 25, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
It will re-purpose all types of plastics (1-7) to be ultra-low sulphur diesel, wax and naphtha to produce other plastics and will be capable of processing up to 200,000 tonnes of waste plastics annually, predominantly from NSW.
“The last two to three years there has been an emphasis on plastic waste in Australia and we see an acceleration of that. Efforts to ban plastic waste are already in motion. At Brightmark, part of our mission is to reimagine waste and create a world without waste. Australia is a very natural fit for us.”
The plastics renewal facility uses a patented pyrolysis technology, decomposition brought about by high temperatures, to turn plastics into liquid that can then create usable products. Brightmark says it is the only company in the world to use this unique type of advanced recycling technology, that is 93 per cent efficient, on all plastic types.
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