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? Martogg expands recycling facility -Australia
Posted on September 24, 2024 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingAn expansion at the Martogg plastics recycling facility in Dandenong South is using innovative technology to help with the process.
Source: Martogg expands recycling facility – Inside Waste
The expansion has resulted in a plant capable of processing 40,000 tonnes of post-consumer PET bottles per year which has enabled Martogg to produce 17,300 tonnes a year of food grade PET flake tonnes a year, or the equivalent of over 800 million PET bottles.
This is one of 13 jointly funded recycling projects completed since 2021, 9 of which target plastics. These projects have increased Victoria’s capacity to process an additional 80,000 tonnes of plastics per annum.
If they trake in 40,000 tonnes and produce, 17,300 tonnes of flake what happens to the other 22,700 tonnes of material?
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