Recycling is failing to scale up fast enough to be more than a marginal activity for the global plastics sector, with the equivalent of almost 1 kilogram of single-use waste produced for every person on the planet in 2021.
With an additional 6 million tonnes of single-use plastics in circulation, the latest Plastic Waste Makers Index shows from 2019 to 2021, growth in products made from fossil fuels was 15 times that from recycled plastics.
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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com
