Can Plastics be Circular?

A flurry of stories have recently hit the headlines about plastics and recycling, from demands for a tax on plastic drinking straws to the naming and shaming some of the worst offenders for unrecyclable packaging.

This in turn has promoted renewed calls for manufacturers to produce packaging that can be used again and again, and to factor recycling and reuse into product designs. As well as product design, human behaviour has a lot to do with recycling rates. In 2015, recycling rates in the UK fell for the first time – dropping from 44.8% in 2014 to 43.9% in 2015 (the most recent years for which data is currently available).

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