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? 
Pact Group Albury-Wodonga recycling plant awarded – Australia
Posted on April 5, 2023 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
An industry partnership, with support from federal and state governments, the New South Wales-based project by Pact Group started operations in February 2022, producing recycled PET resin from plastic bottles collected through container deposit schemes and household recycling bins.
The plant will divert thousands of tonnes of plastic waste from landfill and means recycled packaging is being manufactured in Australia without the need to import virgin resin.
Sanjay Dayal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Pact Group, said the Albury facility a game changer for Australia’s plastic recycling industry.
“We are proud to be part of a sustainable solution to divert plastic waste from landfill and ensure we are recycling and manufacturing our drink bottles and food packaging here in Australia without the need to import plastic material from overseas,” Dayal said.
The Albury project was so successful that the same project team has been deployed on two more major plastics recycling projects.
The Circular Plastics Australia (PET) joint venture is constructing another facility, this time in Melbourne, that will also be able to recycle up to 1 billion 600ml PET drink bottles a year.
A real project actually doing REAL recycling of PET plastic Waste in Australia. Not some repurpose of plastic waste into a base product like roads or concrete, but a project to return raw resin back to a manufacturer so they don’t have to import virgin resin to make their products.
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