Waste management is one of the biggest challenges faced by the African recycled polymer supply chain and the continent’s waste management challenges urgently need to be dealt with, says Independent Commodity Intelligence Servcies (ICIS) plastic recycling analyst Carolina Holland. In an insight piece distributed on September 3, Holland explains how population growth rates are over 2% a year and that the consequent increase in consumption of plastic packaging makes polymer the largest fraction of waste after organic waste.
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