Pledges to Reduce Plastic Pollution Have Small Impact Corporate pledges to lower plastic pollution are not translating into lower plastic pollution, accord- ing to a new study from Research and Markets. Ac- cording to the research, done by a U.S.-based team of researchers, voluntary commitments made by the world’s biggest companies emphasize plastic recy- cling over lowering plastic production. While recycling is considered an important part of a circular economy, 80 percent of a product’s en- vironmental impacts are determined when it’s be- ing designed. As of 2015, only nine percent of the world’s plastic was recycled. Most went to landfill, while 12 percent was incinerated, venting green- house gases into the atmosphere. Roughly 11 million tons of plastic flows into the ocean each year, and this number is expected to almost double by 2040. TLMI Commits Sustainability Resources For Members TLMI has announced that two of the association’s Sustainability Committee’s subcommittees have launched interactive maps that show the locations of recyclers and waste disposal sites for liner and matrix materials. The release liner subcommittee has launched a map that indicates paper and PET release liner re- cyclers across the United States and Canada and the matrix subcommittee has launched a map indicat- ing matrix waste byproduct disposal sites. Critical Resources The subcommittees’ goals in making these inter- active maps available to association members is to offer companies critical resources as they develop and carry out their own sustainability initiatives. TLMI started providing association members with sustainability resources that included recyclers and non-landfill matrix disposal sites a decade ago in the association’s Recycling Handbook. The publishing of the handbook was one of the central initiatives of the association’s Sustainability Committee to ensure members had resources avail- able as they began their sustainability journeys and looked for ways to recycle liner waste and to keep matrix byproducts out of landfills. The liner recycling and matrix disposal maps will be available on TLMI’s website in early January 2023.
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