Limited recycling access, market barriers and policy gaps are key challenges that lead to only 13.3% of plastic packaging in the US being recycled, says the US Plastics Pact. The organization's newly published 2023-24 Impact Report presents data from its member organizations, which include retailers and converters of consumer packaged goods. The 129 businesses and organizations members of the US Plastics Pact of the pact produce 33% of the plastic packaging on the US market by weight. The top three types of plastic waste by tonnage were found to be PET bottles, high-density PE (HDPE) bottles and PP rigid packaging.
