India

While speaking at the AMI Plastics World Expos North America in Cleveland in November, a panel of stakeholders from across the plastics value chain agreed increased collection is paramount to creating a circular economy in the U.S., despite challenges. Brand owners have made recycled-content pledges for packaging with 2025 and 2030 deadlines; recyclers have built facilities or […]

As the third meeting of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee wrapped up in Kenya, delegates once again expressed frustration about the slow progress toward an internationally binding resolution on plastic pollution.  The third United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting (INC-3) in Nairobi, Kenya from Nov. 13-19 was initially intended to produce a second full draft of […]

The U.S. continued to export less scrap plastic to the rest of the world, according to an analysis of trade data covering the first nine months of 2023.  U.S. companies exported 699 million pounds of scrap plastics during the first three quarters of 2023, down 5% from the same period the year prior. Interestingly, the […]