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? Tomra, Plastretur open Norway’s first plastic sorting plant – Norway
Posted on November 6, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingFrom today onwards, Norway is able to sort its own plastic waste for recycling. Norway-based Tomra and Plastretur, the Norwegian producer responsibility organisation responsible for recycling plastic packaging, officially opened the plant on 5 November 2025.The sorting plant—called Områ—has…
Source: Tomra, Plastretur open Norway’s first plastic sorting plant | Sustainable Plastics
“Områ is more than a facility—it’s a missing link in Europe’s circular economy,” said Tove Andersen, president and CEO of Tomra. “This facility has the capacity to receive and transform all of Norway’s household plastic packaging waste into recyclable fractions, essentially closing the loop for plastics. It is a cornerstone piece of infrastructure providing reliable offtake for mixed waste sorting facilities, and can help recover more resources from source separated material.”
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