10 Mar 2022 --- Amazon is joining the US Department of Energy’s advanced recycling consortium BOTTLE (Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment), which is developing new chemical upcycling strategies to prevent packaging pollution and create valuable new resources for industry. PackagingInsights speaks to Alan Jacobsen, a principal materials scientist at Amazon, about the corporation’s involvement in the consortium and what it could mean for the future of packaging technology and waste management.