Kickstart: This half will not be easy
How hard is it to reach the halfway point? When it comes to the recycling of plastics packaging in the U.S., 50 percent is very, very, very hard. And yet as Steve Toloken writes, the new U.S. Plastics Pact aims to do just that, and to do it within 20 years.
The backers of the Plastics Pact are some very heavy hitters, from Coca-Cola, Unilever, Clorox, packaging giant Amcor and a range of industry groups, including the Association of Plastic Recyclers and the National Association for PET Container Resources. (But not, notably, the American Chemistry Council or Plastics Industry Association.)
Read the full article from Plastics News.
