Plastics Pact leader says design changes needed to improve flexible packaging recyclability

The Pact has offered guidance, which was published internally for our members and are going to be publishing externally later this summer. For recyclability, we adhere to the Association of Plastic Recyclers' design guidelines and have built on that a bit to add some additional guidance for flexibles, because there's such variability in the U.S. market when it comes to flexible plastic packaging and the types of materials being used. That makes it so, so difficult for recyclers. So we need to streamline the materials that are going in to ensure quality material on the other end if we truly want those things to be recycled.