Film Recycling Hits a Pivotal Moment

After a rocky couple of years for film recyclers, recent pilot work is moving the notoriously challenging sector forward, and it is positioned to scale in the coming years. They’re also urgently teeing up compliance with California’s looming extended producer responsibility for packaging law, speakers discussed at the Packaging Recycling Summit on June 16. Recycling rate requirements in state EPR laws, especially in California, are putting pressure on producers to achieve certain thresholds, or face fines or potential material bans come 2032. With producer responsibility organization Circular Action Alliance poised to begin implementing California’s program plan, there is a “growing recognition that this ban on non-recyclable packaging is real, and we need to be doing something about it,” said Patrick Keenan, a sustainable packaging engineer focused on R&D at General Mills.

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