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? 
SA trialling advanced soft plastics recycling scheme – Australia
Posted on December 13, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
The trials are designed to help validate the model for kerbside collection and sorting, one that provides a clean stream of used soft plastics and can be scaled up for an emerging advanced recycling industry.
Different bags are being tested by the three councils, with the Cities of Adelaide and Port Adelaide Enfield both testing the yellow ‘Curby’ bags and the City of Charles Sturt testing an orange, translucent bag. Soft plastics cannot be recycled in the trial unless they are placed in the coloured bags. In total, 4000 households will participate in the trials across the three councils.
Work on the recycling scheme has stimulated new investment in advanced recycling infrastructure since securing a grant under the federal government’s National Product Stewardship Investment Fund in 2020. There are now four facilities either in development or operation.
There are a few ‘ifs’ in here too. Does advanced recycling of pyrolysis work?
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