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? WM closes film recycling plant, future is uncertain -USA
Posted on October 24, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe Natura PCR film recycling facility in Texas represented a huge investment for the nation’s largest solid waste management company, but demand for its output has not met expectations.
Source: WM closes film recycling plant, future is uncertain | Plastics News
WASTE Management was so bullish on developing the recycled film market that the company expanded operations in Texas after the acquisition and announced plans for another Midwest location. The future of those plans now remains unclear without further information from WM.
“Demand for PCR is expected to grow in response to consumer packaged goods companies’ commitments to use recycled content and pressures from consumers and regulators to increase the PCR content in the packaging materials the companies manufacture,” WM said at the time of the acquisition.
It has not. Instead, brand owners have backed away from previously stated recycled content and sustainability goals that once sounded good but proved to be elusive for them, at least in the short term. Public sentiment in the mid-to-late 2010s helped drive brands to announce these goals, only to see them back away, often quietly, as deadlines for implementation, commonly 2025, approached.
The plastics industry tries hard to mislead us all into thinking that plastic recycling will solve our plastic problems. But cases like the above, over and over again, say the opposite and recycling of plastic is not feasible. This highly promotes making all plastic film landfill-biodegradable.
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