Data Sort: The enormous gap between virgin and recycled resin supply
U.S. annual olefin recycling (or reclamation) capacity is less than 5% of U.S. virgin resin production, as indicated by the charts below. In other words, the recycling industry has billions of pounds of catching up to do, both in terms of growing collection and building new reclamation capacity. The price of oil – often considered the “price maker” for virgin...








