Plastic film waste collections in US reach record of over 1 billion pounds in 2011

Quality still an issue due to high cost of processing dirty or mixed streams

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(USA) – The amount of post-consumer plastic film collected for recycling in the US exceeded one billion pounds (ca. 454,000 tonnes) for the first time in 2011, according to a new study financed by the plastics division of the American Chemistry Council (ACC). The collection volume grew 4 per cent compared to the ...

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