Needs for Plastics Circularity

At Milliken, we know how important it is to bring experts together to solve big problems. That's why one of our 2025 Product Goals is to convene thought leaders to advance the goal of solving the plastics end-of-life challenge. For Milliken Principal Scientist, Scott Trenor, Ph.D., convening the right voices opens the door to accelerating technical innovation across the plastics packaging community.

"At the end of the day, I want to leave the world a better place," Scott said. In order to do just that, Scott co-authored “Needs for Plastics Packaging Circularity,” a peer-reviewed paper that highlights technical gaps that must be collaboratively addressed by the entire packaging community in order to achieve plastic packaging circularity. The most relevant issues, from all phases of a package’s life cycle from design of packaging and materials of construction to sortation, recycling and reprocessing are ready for innovation. The paper convenes polymer scientists with a specific call to action for additional research across all fields of polymer science to aid in reducing the environmental impact of plastic packaging waste.

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100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: Needs for Plastics Packaging Circularity ACS Macro Lett. 2020, 9, 9, 1376–1390 Publication Date: September 4, 2020