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HERE’S OUR PLAN TO ADDRESS PLASTIC WASTE.
What was unthinkable 30 years ago with recycling plastics is achievable today.
Thanks to innovative technology, we’re able to turn billions of pounds of used
plastics into the products that our lives depend on. America’s Plastic Makers®
have united to create a roadmap that defines our upcoming goals for a
circular economy and a plan for achieving them. One that involves all of us.
FOCUS AREAS
Supply Chain Engagement
Coordinate stakeholder efforts more efficiently to realize greater amounts of plastics recycled.
Coordinate stakeholder efforts more efficiently to realize greater amounts of plastics recycled.
Consumer Engagement
Improve education and outreach to consumers that results in more plastics recycled with less contamination.
Improve education and outreach to consumers that results in more plastics recycled with less contamination.
Access to Recycling
Expand access, so those with no access or limited access to plastics recycling are able to recycle.
Expand access, so those with no access or limited access to plastics recycling are able to recycle.
Collection and Sortation Capability
Innovate to create economically sustainable models
for collecting and sorting non-bottle plastics
and other harder to recycle plastics.
Recycling Capabilities
Invest to create the necessary domestic scale to remanufacture (mechanical and advanced) used plastics into new products.
Invest to create the necessary domestic scale to remanufacture (mechanical and advanced) used plastics into new products.
Economics / End Markets
Invest in sortation and end markets to create sustainable and domestic end markets for recycled plastics.
Invest in sortation and end markets to create sustainable and domestic end markets for recycled plastics.
This is our Roadmap to Reuse
We’re all pitching in together.
Resin Producers
Material innovations working with Advanced Recycling to expand markets.
Industry Groups
Drive the Roadmap to Reuse providing education and support across implementation.Manufactures/Brands/Retailers
Manufacture products from recycled materials and design products to be recycled.
Reclaimers
Create a national standard for guidance on recyclability, expanding mechanical and advanced recycling.Haulers/Materials Recycling Facilities
Expand access to recycling and improve methods and standards for sorting plastics.
Governments
Develop policies to enable and support the national recycling framework while tracking progress.America’s Plastic Makers® are investing in infrastructure, technology and product design solutions while inviting governments, businesses and other stakeholders to meet our shared goal of a circular economy for plastics.
