CHAPTER 3
The State of the Recycling Industry
Jean-Marc Boursier
Group Senior Executive Vice President andChief Financial Officer, Finance and Recycling& Recovery (Northern Europe), SUEZ
THE GLOBAL RECYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE IS FRAGMENTED. There is no clear, across-the-board guidance or top-down leadership about what can be recycled and how to solve for waste. At the national, state, provincial, and local levels in sovereign bodies around the world, there are different regulations and public policies ordering the behavior of businesses and consumers. Because of this, recycling is often viewed as voluntary, and people who do recycle—or repurpose a waste object by valuing only the material from which it is made—may be confused about or unaware of ...
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