Until the development of PRISM technology there hasn’t been an effective way to differentiate between a plastic bleach or milk bottle of the same polymer type.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas provides countless examples of why plastics for electronic applications will be a $115 billion market by 2023.

A couple of months ago, plastics engineer Eric Larson began monitoring his use of PE film and documenting his effort to recycle as much of it as he could in a series of articles in PlasticsToday. The experience, he confesses, has been a royal pain in the ass.

Once an admirable goal for plastic packaging and single-use plastic products, recycling of late has been called a “garbage” technology, an example of industry “greenwashing” and a “great con.”