London’s mayor Sadiq Khan wants to roll out a new network of water fountains and bottle-refill stations across the capital to help reduce the use of single-use packaging, such as plastic water bottles, the Guardian has learned.
According to the data, a million plastic bottles are bought worldwide every minute, and annual consumption is expected to surpass half a trillion bottles by 2021. A large proportion wind up buried in landfill sites or littering the ocean, with figures revealing that more than half of the plastic bottles bought in 2016 were not collected for recycling.
It is not surprise that each of us will use at least one plastic bottle a day. these drinking bottles belong to PET material, which can be recycled but not always easy.
“I remembered when I was young, I collected the plastic bottles, and then take them to the waste recycling center to sell. A plastic bottle about 0.2 or 0.3 yuan at that time. But few people are willing to do this now, plastic bottles often appear in our daily garbage, it isn’t classified any more. I don’t know where they’re going in the end, probably burned or landfill. ” said a resident of our community.
The program to make tap water available to the public is a way to reduce the amount of single-use plastic bottles and cups. However, it isn’t the long-term plan, the convenience of bottled water will still be favored by people. If there is a method can both benefit the environment and improve the economic development, Why not ?
What we should attach importance is PET bottles recycling. GREENMAX Poseidon series can squeeze the water out of the drinking bottles efficiently with the residual humidity between 8% and 15%, while the energy consumption is low at the 30 kWh per ton of flake, which is only 20% of hot drying process. It provides a high efficient way to do the destruction and dewatering together at a time, which can handle beverage or drinking products like PET beverages.
Such a PET bottle recycling machine is not hard to find, because GREENMAX has a history more than ten years, and it has severed in different countries and regions. Aiming to promote the recycling rate of PET bottles, it is still constantly optimized and updated.