An ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will plan and host a public workshop in Washington, DC to consider how the chemistry and chemical engineering communities can provide practical solutions to the plastic disposal and waste problem. The workshop will focus on better connecting the product design with end-of-use stages of the plastic life cycle. Specifically, the workshop will discuss new polymer options and approaches that reduce the impacts of plastics that enter the environment and that improve recycling of plastics through both mechanical and chemical methods. Ultimately, the overall goal of the workshop is to provide a venue to identify opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of plastics by enhancing plastic recycling and by reducing the lifetime of plastics that enter the environment. A workshop proceedings, authored by a rapporteur, will be published after the workshop.