PERSPECTIVES: Single Use Plastics & Packaging - Policy and Technology Solutions in the States

Please See Below For Session Recording and Materials As states look to adopt new laws around plastics and packaging, it is essential to identify public policy approaches that make sense environmentally and economically. Hear from the American Chemistry Council on legislative policy solutions around single-use plastics and packaging recycling and how innovative advanced recycling technologies can help create new products our of plastics previously destined for disposal.

This discussion was led and sponsored by the American Chemistry Council.

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Below please find follow up materials to further your research on this important topic:

ACC Policy Principles

Roadmap to Reuse Guiding Principles Plastics Solutions for America

Advanced Recycling Bills – Passed To-Date

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Texas-part-of-national-push-for-laws-promoting-13847145.php

2019 OH HB 166 IL HB 2491 TX HB 1953 TN SB 923 IA SF 534

2018 WI AB 979

2017 GA HB 785 FL HB 335

Third party analyses/opinions on advanced recycling.

https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2020/10/14/in-my-opinion-industrys-tech-development-must-continue/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=internal&utm_campaign=Oct+14+PRU

https://community.asme.org/materials_energy_recovery_division/b/weblog/archive/2020/10/05/analysis-of-concerns-re-advanced-recycling.aspx

Videos on the process:

What is advanced recycling LyondellBasell Shell Agilyx