tms’ Senior Director of Packaging speaks at the 2025 Plastics Recycling Conference
Our Senior Director of Packaging, Supply Chain, Neil Darin, recently participated in an expert panel discussion at the 2025 Plastics Recycling Conference. The event took place from March 24 to 26 in Maryland, connecting over 2,600 leaders in the packaging and plastic recycling industries.
At the conference, a panel of recycling and packaging experts, including Neil, addressed how businesses in the CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) industry can use food-grade Polypropylene recycling now that it’s ready to scale.
Panelists tackled the topic head-on in a session titled, “From Waste to High Quality: Making PP Food-Grade – A Full Value Chain Perspective” – discussing the opportunities, roadblocks, and breakthroughs surrounding food-grade recycled PP.
Their message: the material and technology exist, and the brand leaders are ready to buy, but the infrastructure is slowly catching up to the market needs, and new investments are not aligned to future legislations’ direction and momentum. Brand leadership and engagement is also essential to unlocking scale and moving the system forward.
We’re just not seeing the material at the rate we need to support the food industry. Brands are ready. They want to use recycled PP, but the supply isn’t there yet.
In support of a true circular economy, foodservice and CPG brands will need to continue to support recycling by designing for the system, improving ease of sortation, and removing contaminates, committing to recycled content in their products, and encouraging consumer participation and access to recycling. One easy step forward is to address decoration design choices which inhibit the ability to recover clear high value polymers.
Hear more key takeaways from experts at the Plastics Recycling Conference on Packaging World.
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