Europe’s recycling industry is facing a growing crisis as low demand for recycled plastics threatens investments, expertise, and processing capacity. A new German study outlines six practical measures to strengthen the circular plastics economy, stabilize the recycling market, and prepare for future recycled content requirements.
A new Ecosurety and RECOUP white paper warns that the UK plastic packaging recycling system is approaching a critical tipping point, urging immediate policy action.
The U.S. recycled plastics market is facing a severe downturn as postconsumer resin demand collapses, reclaimers shut down and PET bales accumulate without buyers, raising urgent policy and investment concerns.
The U.S. recycled PET market faces collapsing bale prices, rising imports, plant closures, and weakening recycling rates, raising urgent questions about domestic circularity and policy reform.
The U.S. Plastics Pact introduces a national framework to strengthen flexible packaging recycling, focusing on design standards, collection systems and end market development.
European recycled PET is under severe pressure from low prices, rising imports and regulatory uncertainty, raising concerns over recycling capacity, investment security and EU circular economy objectives.
India is losing major economic opportunities in the waste recycling sector due to limited formal capacity, inefficient scrap management, and delayed policy reform, according to NITI Aayog.
