In 1967, in his Academy Award-winning role in The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman was told that the future is “plastics”. Today, plastic pollution is one of the top three environmental topics and challenges for all of our economies. Arguably, the “future” is how to recover all the plastic that stains our environment and waters today. However, one of the challenges for remediation and improvements is that many different stakeholders suggest that plastic recycling does not work and has never lived up to its promises, so trust has been lost across many international jurisdictions.