27 Jun 2022 --- Circular economy regulations for plastic food packaging are becoming increasingly stringent, but the desperately low availability of food-grade recyclate has left businesses in the Western world struggling to meet recycled content targets – sometimes at the expense of financial penalties. PackagingInsights speaks to trade associations and leading packaging suppliers to understand how more public investment in recycling infrastructure and a focus on recycle-by-design packaging can help drive the circular plastics economy.