‘Wonderful situation we’ve only dreamt of’

Optimism, fueled by high prices and huge demand for recycled materials, is dominating the plastics recycling scene. At the same time there are difficulties in fulfilling supply obligations. ‘We’re in that wonderful situation we’ve only dreamt of: that there is such demand that, once you have value for a plastic, then you’re going to create more innovation, more people wanting to collect, more people seeing it as an untapped resource,’ Sally Houghton of the Plastic Recycling Corporation of California told the latest BIR Convention.