Solutions to close the loop on plastics – today and tomorrow

There are three main building blocks to close the loop on plastics packaging; Enabling reuse, collecting for recycling, closed loop recycling. Viable solutions already exist and just to be applied and scaled: reuse systems for food takeaway, deposit return systems for beverage container, mixed waste sorting, advanced sortation of plastics, advanced mechanical recycling. The main bottleneck today is business models and not availability of technology.