ISRI puts more focus on plastics

United States – The US Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has created a new division with a special focus on plastics.

According to ISRI president Robin Wiener, the change is important in that it gives members a voice within the organisation for each and every commodity they produce. ‘Twenty years ago, companies typically specialised in only one commodity, but today they are increasingly handling significant volumes across multiple commodity streams,’ Wiener explains.

The plastics recycling sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the recycling industry. ‘This is a great opportunity for the newly-created plastics division to mitigate some of the barriers to recover plastics while offering visibility into the global supply chain,’ underlines Jonathan Cohen, president of Generated Materials Recovery and chair of ISRI’s Plastics Division.

According to Cohen, there is ‘strong industry-wide interest in seeing this area of recycling become more robust and accessible, and we expect the division to play a leading role in contributing to this development’.

For more information, visit: www.isri.org