Why Plastic Recycling is Failing our Planet
Only 14 percent of plastic is recycled. And the cost of attempting to recycle the rest is too expensive to attempt under current regulation and technology.
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Bioplastics are not doing what they say on the tin.
“Our ambition is to deliver better business and environmental outcomes by creating an effective after-use plastics economy through plastic-to-fuel waste retirement…
The State of the Art: New Options for Plastic Recycling
The plastic recycling system is broken. But there are lots of clever people employing fascinating technologies attempting to tackle the problem. Some with measurable success.
How to make your life plastic neutral. The crisis crept upon us. It only recently entered our consciousness. Plastic has under-pined the modern economy for fifty years – but its waste is strangling our future.
Plastic production is forecast to double in the next two decades, says a study from the Ellen McArthur Foundation. Once used (and used once), most will immediately be discarded.
Food Waste. A good way to start your battle with plastic.
You. Me. The guy next door. Each of us throws away in the region of 4000 pieces of plastic a year – 295 billion pieces of plastic in the UK alone! Breaking that down, an estimated 70% of the plastic we dispose of is food package related, a worrying percentage of which is non-recyclable.
With global population numbers at an all-time high, it is little wonder that our ravenous consumption of food, carbonated drinks, food, fashion (and the fun things in life) is feeding unimaginable volumes of plastic waste into our landfills and oceans. Modern man’s self-made plastic problem is now at a crisis point, even in this crisis!
According to Eurostat, 31 kg of plastic waste is produced per person across the EU each year, adding up to 15.8 million tonnes in total.