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can remove colorants and other contaminants used in plastics and can produce recycled plastics with the same properties as virgin materials that can be used in a wider number of applications, including direct food contact, pharmaceutical and healthcare applications. These products of mechanical and advanced
recycling are used as alternatives to fossil energy- based products and help reduce the environmen- tal footprint of plastics.
New commitments To create this circular economy – in which plastics typically are reused rather than discarded – the plastics value chain is ramping up its commitments. Large brand companies and their suppliers have committed to make packaging easier to recycle and to use increasingly more recycled plastics, which creates more demand for the recycling of plastics. And plastic makers are committing to make more recycled plastics, including those produced through use of advanced recycling. For example, resin suppliers are developing and investing in innova- tive advanced recycling technologies and produc- ing recycled resin made from these technologies.
Advanced recycling is poised to play a key role in enabling the transition to a circular economy for plastics. In fact, it already is playing a role as products from advanced recycling have made their way into the marketplace for recycled plastics. Major brands in Europe and North America such as Tupperware, Nalgene, Mondelez, Unilever, and Bradbury’s Cheese have started to incorporate advanced recycled plastics in their food grade packaging.
Federal policy As awareness of the problem of plastic waste in our environment increases, policy makers at the federal and state levels in the United States are looking for ways to increase plastics recycling, and they’re often – although not always – taking notice of advanced recycling technologies.
Legislation: At the federal level, multiple bipartisan legislative proposals from the previous session of Congress focused on ways to increase plastics recycling. And, so far in 2021 the RECOVER Act, RECYCLE Act, and the Plastic Waste Reduction and Recycling Research Act have been reintroduced. �
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