5 stats on plastics recycling and ‘circularity’ investments
Where is funding to build a “circular economy” for plastics going? How are recycling and recycled content trends evolving?
Multiple nonprofits and business groups addressed these and related questions in new reports this summer, including from The Circulate Initiative, World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, WRAP, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the Bank of America Institute and the PET Recycling Coalition. These are some of the statistics they highlighted:
$32 billion was the recent yearly average investment in plastics circularity.