Orlando, Fla. — For chemical recycling to work effectively, some plastics and consumer product companies say governments need to embrace very technical but important standards called mass balance.

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Coalition of 30 nonprofit groups says a Japanese request to use a “mass balance” approach to calculate carbon in steel should be rejected. The organizations skeptical of the “mass balance” approach ...