In The Loop
Cabir KansupadaA weekly AI-curated newsletter covering the US circular economy tracking the science, policy, and business. Designed to be read in two minutes or less.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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800,000 Tons: The Demand Nobody Built
The Big Number
800,000 tons
US companies could buy that much recycled household flexible plastic each year. The bottleneck is demand, not collection. Delterra and Eunomia, funded by Amcor and Kraft Heinz, concentrate 600,000 tons of it...
25.2%: China’s Copper Now Starts as Scrap
The Big Number
25.2% of China’s refined copper feedstock was scrap
Secondary supply is displacing mined ore at scale, and tight ore markets are doing the pushing. Copper-bearing scrap made up 25.2% of feedstock in China’s refined coppe...
92%: Connecticut Cracks the Bottle Bill
The Big Number
92% of Connecticut’s containers came back
A deposit system can be repaired, and Connecticut just showed the receipts. The state’s beverage-container redemption rate hit 92% in 2025, up from 65% a year earlier — a 27-poin...
20,000 Tons: Food Recycling’s Hidden Cost
The Big Number
20,000 tons of microplastics a year
A new University of Vermont study in Nature Food modeled diverting all US food waste from landfills to composting and digestion. The result: an 89–99% cut in climate impact and 49–98%...
5.13 Billion Pounds: Recycling’s Quiet Reversal
The Big Number
+18.6% film, −3.2% bottles
The story of US plastics recycling just flipped. New 2024 data from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and the US Plastics Pact shows film recycling jumped 18.6% (up 206.8 million pound...
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Growth & Strategy at Circular Services. Recent business school graduate, ex-Tesla finance, and materials engineer. In the Loop is a weekly AI-curated briefing on circular economy policy, materials science, and business — under a minute to read.
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