Photo courtesy of ICIS; graphic courtesy of PMM
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, according to Emily Friedman, who monitors the plastics recycling market for ICIS as a Houston-based senior recycled plastics editor. Recyclers would need to realign their sourcing strategies.
It also could affect what processors pay for virgin resin and for various grades of recycled materials.
Learn more in this conversation between Friedman and Bruce Geiselman, senior reporter at PMM, which partners with Recycling Today to produce Plastics Recycling, a supplement to both titles that is distributed three times per year.
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