The Problem with Recycled Plastics – A Discussion with Anatune and Unilever

Single use plastics have been a hot topic in public discourse in recent years. A huge amount isn’t collected, sorted or recycled and people are asking the why big business isn’t doing more. Many companies are responding positively and setting ambitious goals like Unilever who committed to halving its use of virgin plastics by 2025.

But in order to sort this out, we need to analyse plastics to see what’s in there and, as with most things in our industry, it’s not that simple. It’s a complicated process with a bewildering number of variables to consider, and not a lot of control.

We’ve been using SIFT-MS in conjunction with GC/Q-TOF and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to provide some insight into malodours in recycled plastic.

Join Unilever’s Alison Cummins and, Jamie Minaeian & Phine Banks of Anatune as they talk about some of the pioneering work being done to improve our ability to make single use plastics a thing of the past.