Leaders from Mars, Nestlé, Just Born Quality Confections, Kenvue, Campbell's, General Mills, and more shared their insights and lastest innovations in recycling on Tuesday at the Packaging Recycling Summit in Rosemont, Ill. Here's what they had to say:
The recycling of flexible plastic remains a difficult and costly challenge for the whole recycling value chain. That's due to the material's difficulty to process within traditional MRF infrastructures, their frequent multi-material or nature, the cleanliness of the stream, and the lack of suitable end markets to make their recycling profitable, among other drawbacks.
