PODCAST: ICIS Inside Chemicals – Plastics recycling: mostly challenges, and some opportunities

LONDON (ICIS)–European News Editor Jonathan Lopez and Insight Editor Nigel Davis discuss plastics recycling with Senior Editor Mark Victory and Helen McGeogh, Senior Analyst for plastics recycling.

Plastics recycling rates in Europe vary greatly from one country to another, adding woes to the EU’s ambitious circular economy plans. Improving collection rates will be key to obtain the necessary feedstocks.

The rest of the world offers the same disparity of recycling systems and rates, and even bigger challenges.

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ICIS is launching a new Europe recycled polyethylene (R-PE) price report on Thursday covering post-consumer high density polyethylene (HDPE) and low density polyethylene (LDPE) bales and R-HDPE and R-LDPE pellets.

ICIS is also launching a new Europe recycled polyethylene terephthalate (R-PET) analytics service on 24 May covering our forward view of post-consumer PET bale, R-PET flake and pellet markets, as well as market impact analysis of brand, regulatory and supply/demand developments.

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