Why It’s Vital to Scale Plastic Recycling Technologies
- doug2684
- 6 hours ago
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Various key steps are needed to unlock the full potential of recycling and the advent of truly circular economies for plastic. So states the Ocean Recovery Alliance (ORA), a Hong Kong-based non-governmental organization (NGO), in its recently published report called “Towards Circular Plastics”.
Plastic pollution remains one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. The study provides a critical assessment of how recycling technologies—particularly mechanical and chemical recycling—can help to address the plastic pollution crisis by reducing mismanaged plastic waste. This is particularly vital as the United Nations Plastic Treaty negotiations enter their final stages with the INC-5.2 meeting in Geneva in August.