The Sustainable Packaging Coalition director says that with today's insufficient recycling infrastructure and evolving packaging stream, both chemical and mechanical technologies will be needed to boost plastics recycling rates.

At the 2018 Waste Management Sustainability Forum earlier this month, the leader of a startup called Zipline presented an idea that was quite outside the realm of recycling but that could nevertheless help to inspire our industry's sense of strategic thinking. Zipline uses drones to deliver blood to rural hospitals in rural Rwanda. The company founder, Keller Rinaudo, said the...