Not making much progress toward developing next lives for our plastic waste

The Plastic Manufacturing and Consumer Product Industries are “… not making much progress toward developing next lives for our plastic waste …” according to a GreenBlue Monthly Newsletter article from December 2018 which notes that “... the wider plastics industry needs a plan for improvement … our current collection and sorting systems sending resins for mechanical recycling will not be able to supply the quality required for a massive increase in recycled content use … We will need to build both our mechanical recycling capacity and embrace new chemical recycling technologies …”