This article appeared in the July 2022 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content.   I recently read the op-ed on plastics recycling in The Atlantic written by representatives from The Last Beach Cleanup and Beyond Plastics, and it certainly was not good for my blood pressure. The article, titled "Plastics Recycling Doesn't Work and Never Will"...

The president of the Association of Plastic Recyclers calls an op-ed by The Last Beach Cleanup and Beyond Plastics an unfair and distorted assessment of the plastics recycling industry. He says now is the time for investments in recycling, not the abandonment of it.