Plastic packaging and the circular economy - An ICIS View

ICIS, February 2018

The world won’t do without plastics but producers, converters, retailers and consumers are being prodded into doing more with less. 

Nigel Davis reports on the increased global use of plastic packaging, as this topic is more closely scrutinised and more waste is recycled, virgin polymer demand growth is curtailed. 

This ICIS insight explores how the new legislation adopted by the European Union is likely to spread to other parts of the word where the throwaway plastic waste problem is much greater.