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? Site Zero plastics recycling facility opens in Sweden
Posted on April 30, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic Recycling
Sweden’s Site Zero has started operations this Wednesday. First announced in 2021 following a SEK 1 billion (€87 million) investment by Swedish Plastic Recycling (Svensk Plaståtervinning), the facility is touted as the largest of its kind, and one designed to double the amount of plastic packaging…
Source: Site Zero plastics recycling facility opens in Sweden | Sustainable Plastics
Located in the southern locality of Motala, the recycling facility can sort up to 200,000 tonnes of plastic packaging a year. It can separate up to 12 different types of plastic, in particular PP, HDPE, LDPE, PET tray, PET bottles (coloured and transparent), PP film, EPS, PS, PVC, two grades of Polyolefin mix, metal, and non-plastic waste.
Site Zero is now able to send up to 95% of the packaging it processes for recycling, up from 47% in the old facility, which was only able to sort four kinds of plastic.
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