Circular Economy: Consumer Perspectives on Plastic Recycling

Recycling policy is mostly written for household packaging, while much of the plastic in circulation never passes through a household. This project surveys the people who actually use and dispose of plastics outside that channel, starting with row-crop and livestock operations in the American Midwest, and asks what would have to change for more of that material to be recovered.

Christina Gore
Christina Gore
Research Economist

I am a research economist in the Applied Economics Office at NIST, working on environmental, behavioral, and community resilience economics.