If the U.S. doesn’t modernize its recycling infrastructure, it risks ceding a multibillion-dollar industry to foreign competitors, while burying valuable materials in landfills.
Ross Eisenberg, president of America’s Plastic Makers at the American Chemistry Council in Washington, D.C., says the technology exists to close the gap between what’s tossed in recycling bins and what is actually recycled. That technology isn’t being used at scale, though.
We asked him about the impact of this disconnect and delved into his three-point plan to transform recycling from an environmental aspiration into an economic engine.
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