Tariffs could disrupt recycled plastic market: PMM Insight
The proposed tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico have the potential to affect plastics recyclers and the processors who buy their resins.
In 2023, the U.S. imported about 40 percent of its plastic scrap from Canada and 18 percent from Mexico, said Emily Friedman, who monitors the plastics recycling market for ICIS. Recyclers would need to realign their sourcing strategies.
It could also affect what processors pay for virgin resin and for various grades of recycled materials.
Learn more in this conversation between Friedman and PMM senior reporter Bruce Geiselman.
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Bruce Geiselman
Senior Reporter Bruce Geiselman covers plastics processing technologies and end markets including automotive and packaging. He also writes features, including In Other Words and Problem Solved, for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing and The Journal of Blow Molding. He has decades of experience in daily and magazine journalism, including eight years at PMM, and is the recipient of a Jesse H. Neal Award, among other recognitions.