24 Oct 2022 --- A new Greenpeace USA report finds that most plastic cannot be recycled. While US households generated an estimated 51 million metric tons of plastic waste in 2021, only 2.4 million metric tons were recycled. The report also finds that no type of plastic packaging in the US meets the definition of recyclable used by either the Federal Trade Commission or the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastic Economy Initiative. PackagingInsights speaks with Lisa Ramsden, senior oceans campaigner at Greenpeace USA, about the reasons for low plastic recycling rates and poor recyclability, the challenges for increasing these numbers and the investment shifts needed to improve the situation.
