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🌟 What is Target 4 of Roadmap 2.0? 🌟 The fourth target is to achieve an average of 30% postconsumer recycled content or responsibly sourced biobased content across all plastic packaging. What are the planned outcomes for Target 4? 1️⃣ U.S. Plastics Pact Activators increase the demand for postconsumer recycled content (PCR) through all feasible means, prioritizing packaging with the fewest challenges, supporting the highest and best use of the material in all types (primary, secondary, and tertiary) of plastic packaging, and developing interim markets as necessary. 2️⃣ U.S. Plastics Pact Activators have developed strategies to achieve the following PCR averages (by weight) in select plastic packaging formats (see Roadmap 2.0, p. 18 for more details) 3️⃣ U.S. Plastics Pact facilitates an understanding of PCR regulations, conditions of use and constituents for food contact materials. 4️⃣ The U.S. Plastics Pact and its Activators are aligned on the role of chemical recycling in a circular economy. 5️⃣ The use of responsibly-sourced biobased content meets the five criteria outlined to insure against unintended consequences (see Roadmap 2.0, p. 19 for more details) These outcomes can only become reality with the efforts and mobilization of our Activators. Join us in our mission to create a circular economy for plastics and be part of the transition! #RoadmapToCircularity #USPlasticsPact #RoadmapTo2025 Read our Roadmap 2.0 to learn more about Target 4: https://lnkd.in/gcV8mD7

American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division Issues Principles to Support Growth of Bio-based Plastics Innovation in U.S. Includes Incentives 💰 : Any government investment, production incentives or credits should be designed to provide a level playing field with other biogenic product market incentives across the value chain and for all in-scope bio-based plastics. Policy Goals 🥅 : Develop ambitions for bio-based plastics in coordination with other Federal goals and targets for chemical and plastics circularity; and ensure both recycled and bio-based plastics are counted as potential contributors towards a circular economy. Recycling ♻ : Advocate for bio-based plastics policies that support mechanical, advanced, and organics recycling capabilities, and ensure bio-based plastics that are recycled are included in recycling reporting. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/eWdqasMf #biobased #bioeconomy #plastics

US Plastics Pact releases new road map with 2030 plastics targets The U.S. Plastics Pact on Monday released an updated strategic plan to help participating companies and organizations, or “activators,” change how they design, use and reuse plastics in their packaging. The plan aims to continue work on existing 2025 targets that are unlikely to be met Dubbed Roadmap 2.0, this version still uses 2020 as the baseline year and sets goals for 2030 that include reducing virgin plastic use by 30%, recycling 50% of plastic packaging and achieving an average of 30% post-consumer recycled or responsibly sourced biobased content in plastic packaging. These new targets are the same as, or very similar to, the goals laid out in the original strategy, Roadmap to 2025, with the deadline moved from 2025 to 2030 and a couple additions. Work toward the Roadmap 2.0 targets will begin Jan. 1, 2026. Find the article in the comment

With the push for sustainability, use of bio-based and circular raw materials has accelerated quickly. Read our statement and guiding principles on bio-based plastics: https://bit.ly/3SOg0GX #bioplastics #sustainability #plastics

I am very excited about this new chapter with SPE: Inspiring Plastics Professionals. I invite you to read my article and follow their digital magazine Plastics Engineering, where I am part of the team as Content Editor! #plastics #sustainability #technical #Engineering

There is a loudening call for #simplification of #plastics. Plastics can be great tools, but their ingredient list is often (partially or entirely) undocumented. The call for #mandatory #plastics #disclosures along the #plastics #value #chain is also loudening, since plastics disclosures are part of the solution. Some new evidence on the impurities found in recycled PE (polyethylene) plastics is collected in a downloadable dataset of organic pollutants identified and quantified in recycled polyethylene pellets. The recently published study is based on 28 plastic samples collected from more than 10 countries. The study focused on collecting directly from plastics recycling locations. The study reports that the persistence of #herbicides and #pesticides is the most prevelant cause of contamination in the 28 samples of recycled plastic pellets in this specific study. Plastics, as an industrial material, are not a single thing. The various types of plastics around the planet contain thousands of chemicals. And the issues with the ingredients of plastics are manyfold: 1. some of these plastic ingredients possess known and documented hazardous properties (the data is there) 2. others chemicals found in plastics lack reliable hazard data (the data is not there or very limited, largely undocumented) 3. besides hazardous and undocumented chemicals, there are also non-intentionally added substances (NIAS) that contaminate the formula of plastics All three issues arise when plastics are recylced for further use in the plastics value chain, because there is little focus in the vlaue chain on simplification, ingredient list disclosures. Regulation is largely absent: 1. less than 1 % of plastics chemicals are subject to international regulation. 2. Mandatory and transparent disclosure reporting of ingredients /chemicals is often lacking. 3. Unknown contents infiltrate recycled plastics, since there are no ingredient lists to start with and also due to impurities of the recycling plastic feedstock. #plastics #simplification #simple #tools Source: https://lnkd.in/edWkekN8 Photo by Todd Quackenbush on Unsplash

The #recycled #plastics market is a segment of the larger plastics industry that focuses on the collection, processing, and reuse of post-consumer or post-industrial plastic materials. This market plays a crucial role in reducing plastic waste, conserving natural resources, and mitigating environmental impacts associated with plastic production. Download Sample Report @ https://lnkd.in/gB7QjWEi Growing environmental awareness and increasing concern about plastic pollution have driven the demand for recycled plastics. Governments, industries, and consumers are increasingly looking for sustainable alternatives to virgin plastics. Many governments around the world are implementing regulations and policies to promote the use of recycled plastics. This includes mandates for minimum recycled content in certain products, extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs, and initiatives to increase recycling rates. Major Key Players : Veolia SUEZ KW Plastics Jayplas B & B Plastics, Inc. Clear Path Recycling LLC Custom Polymers, Inc. Plastipak Ultra-Poly Corporation Asia Plastic Recycling Holding Ltd Cabka Envision Plastics KK Polycolor Asia Ltd. KW Plastics MBA Polymers Inc PET Processors, LLC Phoenix Technologies International, LLC

Plastics Recycling Faces Change And Innovation From chemical processing of recycling plastics to eliminating single-use plastics to developing biodegradable polymers, the plastic recycling industry is facing continuous change and innovation. https://lnkd.in/gxsb-55J

oxo biodegradable plastics are materials that are mainly made of standard conventional plastics such as PE, PP, PET etc. with some “special” additives. These additives are catalytic materials which help the products to biodegrade in a two-step process: oxidation and then biodegradation. A recent Court decision, based on scientific studies available at the time of the Single use Plastics Directive’s adoption, highlights concerns about the low to non-existent level of biodegradation of this material. Find out more here, as oxo-biodegradable plastics head for ban ➡ https://lnkd.in/ePT_htjt

Great to see the validation for pyrolysis technology – good chemistry! We're on a mission to accelerate our circular approach to petrochemicals at Resynergi with our advanced chemical recycling technology. When the majority of plastic material is not recycled or converted into new products, we believe there's a sense of urgency to reduce our environmental and health problems. #resynergi #circularity #advancedrecycling #circulareconomy #plasticcircularity #plasticsrecycling #cleaner https://lnkd.in/eGJSMpwF