VIEWPOINT Viewpoint Letters from our readers
At the airport on my way to Stuttgart in April to attend the UNITI Congress, I noticed how much more information there was on the negative impact of plastics to our environment than there was news about aviation emissions. The global news reports about the detrimental effect of plastics to marine life in particular have had a positive impact in bringing the problem to the attention of the world and governments are reacting to make changes.
There have been many reports on the relationship between oil and gas companies and plastics by the general press and certainly the bans around the world on single use plastic items will dent growth in oil demand over the coming years, although global appetite for crude is still predicted to grow over the next decade or two.
The recent Chinese ban on the importing of foreign waste has been a particular wake-up call for Europe. In 2016, the EU collected 8.4 million tons of plastic waste, 1.6 million of that was sent to China.
In the UK, the daily delivery of glass bottled milk to our homes is making a come-back, in an effort to reduce our use of plastic bottled milk. Electric commercial vehicles were once a common sight here. A fleet of 25,000 battery-powered milk floats used to travel the early morning streets delivering an essential part of the nation’s breakfast. Short ranges and low top speeds were unimportant for a milk round but near-silent running ensured customers could sleep. How ironic is it that these days long range and high top speeds are at the top of the electric vehicle agenda!
It is good to see that the world at large is thankfully becoming more responsible for our environment.
Nicky Thomas, Editor
BFR Bundesinstitut fur Risikobewertung revises position Occasionally it hits you how global the food market is. From Malaysia I received calls for help because their European customers are refusing food product if they do not guarantee that the supplied products are MOSH and MOAH free. It is clear that there is a pressing need to educate producers and customers on the reality of MOSH and MOAH. The position paper by the BFR (German government body for risk assessment) of February 2018 clearly stating that with current knowledge MOAH do not present a health risk in pharmaceutical products, and MOSH already many years accepted, with limitations, by EFSA means a big step forward toward acceptance of highly refined mineral oil based lubricants for food production equipment.
Andreas Adam, FRAGOL AG
The Diesel Dilemma Taking my Land Rover for its annual service I found my mechanic in a state of anguish over the “diesel dilemma” that is bad mouthing modern diesel passenger cars and reducing annual diesel vehicle sales by 17%.
He put it simply “instant experts in the media choose to ignore the facts that modern diesels with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) have reduced NOX emissions to almost zero.” In fact, combined with particulate filters these vehicles are possibly the cleanest on the road today!
Not only clean but efficient as well, diesel vehicles offer 20-30% fuel efficiency over their petrol counterparts. This equates to lower CO2 emissions. But hey, why let the facts get in the way of a good story?
Rod Pesch 6 LUBE MAGAZINE NO.145 JUNE 2018
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