What’s next in recycling? AI, smarter sorting, and better policies. Here’s a look inside the AI revolution making recycling faster, more accurate, and more efficient.
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You can help build a new circular economy for plastic, in which plastic is reused instead of discarded. Helping keep plastic out of our environment.
Five Actions For Sustainable Change
Learn about our comprehensive national strategy to confront the most pressing challenges head on and move the United States toward a sustainable, circular economy where plastics and other materials can be reused again and again.
Policy Positions
Making sustainable change requires making sustainable public policies. To create a circular economy for plastics, policies that encourage today’s linear economy must be replaced with policies that promote circularity. We’re working with policy makers at the local, state, federal, and international levels to help keep plastic in our economy and out of our environment.
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Advocacy Resources
Want to help make sustainable change? We’re providing helpful resources to lend your hand and raise your voice on the road to circularity.
Reports
Explore science-driven research findings that examine how our industry’s innovative solutions are helping to create a more sustainable future.
Fact Sheets
America’s Plastic Makers understands the need to provide essential information in a concise, straightforward format. We have created informational resources on a variety of topics that highlight key points and critical information.
Podcasts
Part 2 of our interview with Rey Banatao and Peter Chauvel of Google X, the Moonshot Factory explores Moonshot thinking— from circular textiles and synthetic biology to bioplastics made from old clothes. They share their wildest Moonshot Madness ideas, why failure is a critical part of the process and what the future of smarter, sustainable materials could look like.
They walk us through how they’re using cutting edge tools like AI and molecular data to build better systems that keep materials in use and out of the landfill, what it takes to engineer real world change and how rethinking waste could unlock massive economic opportunity.
What if your next car could be made from your last one? Experts explain how automotive recycling and remanufacturing are shaping the future of sustainable vehicle design.
Ross Eisenberg, president of America’s Plastic Makers®, tackles bold solutions to modernize recycling and reduce waste… and he’s looking for dance partners.
Coming together to transform lives. On this special episode of Sustainably Speaking we’ll hear from Matt Campana, CEO of Hands of Gratitude, on how his organization brings people together to assemble prosthetic hands for people in need around the world.