Romania’s Plastic Pivot 

With one of the world’s largest deposit return systems now live, Romania is rapidly rethinking how plastic is designed, collected, and paid for.

The PCR Crunch Is Coming

As regulations push PCR targets higher, manufacturers are finding a new bottleneck: the supply of quality recycled resin just isn’t keeping up.

What COP30 Didn’t Do

COP30 left the world without a plastics agreement. But the real story is how quickly everyone else is moving without one.