Plastic recycling in the US: APR and the Circular Plastics Taskforce (CPT) join forces to advance plastics recycling solutions

“The Circular Plastics Taskforce is helping to develop and implement sortation and recycling solutions in Canada for hard-to-recycle plastics in the context of extended producer responsibility programs across the country,” said Steve Alexander, APR President & CEO. “APR’s tools and resources are the starting point for enabling compatibility between package designs and the recycling infrastructure. By leveraging each organization’s strengths, we will help achieve an effective and robust plastics recycling system in Canada and beyond.”

The CPT focuses on a better alignment between market needs and the recycling value-chain to propose concrete solutions to optimize plastics management in a circular economy. It brings together industry leaders to evaluate and improve recovery and recycling of post-consumer plastics collected from Canadian households. Since its inception, the group’s unique collaborative approach has attracted support from government and industry partners across North America.

“Our common goal is to increase the use of recycled content in plastic packaging. For that to happen, we need improved sortation and recycling capacities, which are particularly needed for hard-to-recycle plastics such as flexibles and PET Thermoforms,” said Marie-Anne Champoux-Guimond, Chair of the CPT’s Board of Directors. “Bringing APR’s packaging design expertise and industry perspective in our projects will complement our approach and unlock new opportunities for improvement across the value chain.”

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