Advanced Recycling: Limitations and Potential Solutions

Retailers are increasingly looking for solutions to reduce plastic waste and improve recycling outcomes across packaging and product supply chains. Traditional municipal recycling systems often cannot process many types of plastic materials, including films, multilayer flexible packaging, textiles, and other complex plastic products.

Advanced recycling—also referred to as chemical or molecular recycling—has emerged as a potential solution for processing these hard-to-recycle plastics and supporting more circular plastic value chains. These technologies aim to break down plastic waste into its chemical components so materials can be reused in new products and packaging.

In this webinar, experts explore the diverse landscape of advanced recycling technologies, the opportunities they present for improving plastic recovery, and the key challenges that remain as the industry develops.