Plastic, plastic everywhere but not for African recyclers

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Plastic,
plastic everywhere but not for African recyclers (Reuters)

  • As in many developing countries, Kenya’s recycling industry is underdeveloped and relies heavily on the private sector, which has slowed plastic recycling initiatives, as the plastic collection business generates low margins
  • As a result, multinational firms like Coca-Cola and Unilever are subsidizing the collection of their PET through the non-for-profit body called PETCO whose members reportedly account for 60% of the PET market.
  • Additionally, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Unilever and Diageo have formed the African plastic recycling alliance last March to create recycling initiatives.

Analysis and Comments

  • The article showcases the two main issues the plastics recycling industries in most countries are faced with;
  • 1) an underdeveloped collection and recycling infrastructure, and
  • 2) the subsequent lack of recyclable materials to sustain their businesses.
  • While a growing number of governments has already begun to take action (e.g. in the form of bans), more incentives from governments are needed to boost participation in recycling schemes (or, for example, to set up deposit schemes which have shown to be very successful in the EU) and to hold companies legally responsible for the collection of their waste.

Corbion is one of the company ahead on this PET topic and is one of the leaders in PLA which is a lactic based plastic !

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Plastic recycling I believe is a very reasonable thing to do, it prevents plastic waste being all over the place, this is the one thing all people can see and apart of course are all the positive environmental aspects that this recycling can address. But it seems there are people who are against it, here in Honduras at least in the city where I live there are a number of people who made their living by collecting plastic refuse and selling it to recyclers, but then the recyclers cut what they were paying to these people for plastic in half, this resulted in two things, people stopped picking up plastic from the streets yards etc because it was no longer economically attractive, and now the city is dirtier, in the end this results in plastic ending up in the sea or rivers.

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Wow, very interesting insights on your own situation. I never thought about this issue.

I guess a solution would be to elect someone that would care about these issues and of course to educate the community as these are the one that need to make the change.

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Why do you have to elect someone to care? Why can't people take responsibility for themselves and just pick up the stuff and recycle it.

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That is one part of the issue. Self awareness and respect of the environment.
But also, you need cleaners as in any city in the world to make the daily cleaning. As if there is some trash, people unfortunately think "It is already dirty so my little piece of trash is not going to change anything"

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The cause is of course people's irresponsibility in throwing plastic trash all over the place, but the people who do collect this trash play an important part in solving the problem, by reducing their incomes the problem is increased.

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Indeed, this has « cut » the transition phase between their job and personal responsibility.

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