The Recycling Leadership Council will be hosting a news conference later today to “unveil a comprehensive plan to modernize America’s recycling system.”
Great topic, and something sorely needed. But there’s something curious about the people taking part in this event. There are members of Congress and representatives from the Consumer Brands Association, the Recycling Partnership and Closed Loop Partners along with the president of the Glass Packaging Institute.
But no one from the plastics industry or one of plastics recycling groups. No one from the aluminum, paper or steel recycling groups either.
Let’s give the project the benefit of the doubt. The RLC includes the Flexible Packaging Association and Ameripen and the Consumer Brands group includes multiple companies that rely on plastic packaging, so there is plastics representation within the group, if not within those groups participating in the virtual press conference.
And the plan may indeed provide the needed framework for every material to benefit. We’ll have to wait and see, and hope it really can deliver.
