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? 
Qenos and Cleanaway have answer to soft plastic woes – Australia
Posted on November 24, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
Qenos and Cleanaway are offering up part of the solution to Australia’s soft plastic waste woes after the suspension of the country’s largest soft plastics collection and recycling scheme run by REDCycle.
“Qenos and Cleanaway have been working together on a Circular Plastics Project for over nine months that will initially target the collection of 100,000 tonnes of soft plastics per annum,” said Qenos CEO Stephen Bell. “This is more than 10 times the size of total annual volumes collected through the REDcycle scheme, and through investment in advanced recycling infrastructure, our companies would together be able to close the loop on soft plastics.”
The total investment is currently estimated at more than $500 million and is projected to create 185 direct and over 2,900 indirect local jobs. Cleanaway will look to partner with councils and commercial customers to collect the plastics and invest in new infrastructure to process these materials into a form that is suitable for advanced processing.
Sounds good. We shall see what happens.
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