We need to do better with recycling common plastics: PMM Insight

Sept. 12, 2024
Alternative materials alone won't solve the plastics waste crisis.

Senior reporter Karen Hanna researched biomaterials for our September cover story package. She says in this commentary that while these new materials may be a solution for the future, production is too low so far to make a dent in the problem of plastic waste, and we need to focus on recycling the more common materials that are right in front of us.

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About the Author

Karen Hanna | Senior Staff Reporter

Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.