Is it the End for Non-recyclable Plastic Packaging?

Nothing perhaps defines our consumer-driven society of recent decades better than plastic. Its growth in production since the 1950s – largely driven by packaging – has been extraordinary. We now produce a staggering 300 million tons of it each year. But we know that the qualities that make plastic so suited for packaging – its versatility, durability, impermeability – also make it very environmentally unfriendly, as it’s non-biodegradable and challenging to recycle. Increasingly alarming ...