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? Recyclers benefit from soaring cost of virgin material in March
Posted on April 7, 2026 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingSource: Recyclers benefit from soaring cost of virgin material in March – Plastics News
In March, recyclers raised prices as the war in Iran initiated rising energy, logistics and raw material costs, which they had to pass through to their customers. Demand started to pick up because of seasonal factors, but also due to security of supply concerns by processors following supply disruptions in the Middle East. Recyclers also benefited from the soaring cost of virgin material as some converters switched to greater use of recyclate.
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