CHEMICAL RECYCLING USA | EVENT REVIEW
of executives representing the viewpoints of polymer companies, packaging manufacturers and brand owners, who discussed ideas and plans for improving plastics recycling. Rachel Goldstein, North America Policy Director for Sustainable in a Generation Plan, at Mars, said the confectionary brand owner launched its sustainability initiative in 2019. The group aims to reduce the use of virgin plastic in packaging and to include 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content by 2025. Goldstein said chemical recycling appeals to the group because of its ability to turn packag- ing waste back into food-contact approved materials. Ronald Cotterman, Vice President of Innovation and Sustainability at Sealed Air, said that a large part of the group’s business is food packaging which is highly regulated, so it is interested not just in new technologies but also recycling policy in the US. “We’re looking for food-grade quality recy- clates to put in our products, but we’re also trying to ensure our products can be recycled. That means policies that enable or mandate the collection of materials such as thin flexible plastics that ultimately bring down greenhouse gas
emissions because they are so light, but we need the infrastructure to recycle them.” The panellists discussed the potential benefit to
plastics recycling of mandatory targets, but were cau- tious about approaches such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes due to complexity. Zeina El-Azzi, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder at US chemical recycler Brightmark, said there should be mandated goals for recycled content, but “it’s all in the details of how, and what are the supports in place in order to do that.” Joel Heilman, Director of Global Public Policy,
LyondellBasell, said: “My fear is if legislators just pull figures out of the air and don’t do the home- work and collaboration to land on the appropriate targets and objectives of recycled content.” n AMI is planning a number of conferences in Europe and North America during 2021 covering chemical recycling and also mechanical recycling of plastics. Find out more about the these events at
https://www.ami.international/events/upcoming. AMI Consulting has published a series of in-depth market studies on plastics recycling and sustainability – find out more at
https://www.ami.international/ cons/markets/RecyclingSustainability
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