Publication type: Academic Journal Article
The Swedish Extended Producer Responsibility stipulates recycling rates but does not address the quality of the recycling. This gives an incentive for downcycling, which affects what primary material can be substituted by recycled plastics. To shed light on the climate aspects of high-quality plastics recycling, we compare the climate impacts of (1) no recycling, (2) downcycling and (3) advanced sorting that allows for substantial high-quality mechanical recycling.
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