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? 
Victoria secures $4m to advance plastics recycling – Australia
Posted on January 30, 2026 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingFour recycling projects in Victoria are progressing with funding already secured under the Recycling Modernisation Fund, as a new funding round opens to support additional plastics recycling projects.
Source: Victoria secures $4m to advance plastics recycling – PKN Packaging News
The four funded projects will increase Victoria’s plastics recycling capacity by an estimated 16,700 tonnes a year and focus on materials that are difficult to recycle, including soft plastics and agricultural packaging.
The projects are:
- Pact Recycling (Cheltenham): the bagMUSTER project will recover and recycle bags used to transport seed, fertiliser, pesticides and stockfeed.
- APR (Dandenong): a soft plastic sorting capacity upgrade using an infra-red process from Norway to improve sorting and recycling capability, including end-of-life soft plastics.
- Australian Soft Plastics Recycling (Pakenham): a facility upgrade to increase processing capacity and improve the quality of recycled low-density polyethylene films, such as pallet wrap collected from supermarket warehouses.
- RE4ORM (Barnawartha): a facility upgrade to recover low-density plastics for reuse in the manufacture of new recycled products.
The government contribution to the four projects totals $3.5 million, split evenly between the Australian Government and the Victorian Government.
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