Tonnage decreases with challenging two years after China's import ban / "Strong domestic markets for recycling" / CPIA report
Around 309,000 t of Canadian post-consumer plastics waste was collected for recycling in 2017, according to a report published in summer 2019 by More Recycling, formerly Moore Recycling Associates, for the Canadian Plastics Industry Association. This is a 5% decline compared to the year before, and the quantity is also down from the tonnages in 2013, 2014 and 2015. The largest decreases in 2017, in descending order, were for film, non-bottle rigid materials and bottles. As in the previous year, most... (16.09.2019)