Intro

In episode 2 of our new Sustainably Speaking podcast, ICIS' Senior Executive, Business Solutions Group John Richardson is joined by Mark Victory, Senior Editor for Recycling, Europe, and Helen McGeough, Global Analyst Team Lead for Plastic Recycling at ICIS to talk about the importance of investment in Europe's recycling industry. 

Topics covered in this episode include: 

• Need for improvement in collection and sorting capacity
• Importance of high quality waste to allow chemical recycling scale up
• Investment needed to address Europe's structural shortages of recycled material 
• Imbalance between EU Member States for infrastructure investment
• The financial and economic cost of not investing in, and dealing with EU waste