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? Mass balanced materials to count as recycled content in UK
Posted on November 6, 2024 by DrRossH in GeneralMove aims to promote a circular economy for packaging recycling
Source: Mass balanced materials to count as recycled content in UK | Sustainable Plastics
The use of pre-consumer waste as recycled plastic for the Plastic Packaging Tax will be barred.
The UK plans to introduce a definition of chemical recycling in line with the proposed definition by the European Coalition for Chemical Recycling, for the purpose of the tax, enabling businesses to use a mass balance approach to account for recycled material produced from any technology or process that meets the definition of chemical recycling.
That said, the government also clearly stated that ‘chemical recycling is preferable to landfill or incineration, but that mechanical recycling is preferable when possible.’
With the use of Contains Recycled material claims, there needs to be rules that say it must be PCR not PIR. The UK stipulates as shown above, that PIR canot be claimed to be recycled content.
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