Towards a New Plastics Economy

Our current plastics system is broken: if we do not fundamentally change it, there could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. Globally, just 2% of plastic packaging is recycled back into packaging, while the vast majority ends up landfilled, incinerated, or in the environment. To build mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sander Defruyt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut Veolia Environnement 2019-03-01
Series:Field Actions Science Reports
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/factsreports/5369