Plastic Waste Power Play: The offshoring and recycling displacement involved in trying to recycle EU plastic waste
Since records began in the late 1980's, over a quarter of a billion tonnes of plastic waste has been traded globally.
Tag: plastics
Convention on Plastic Pollution – Essential Elements – Production
Virgin plastic production and consumption have reached unsustainable levels. Overproduction has meant inexpensive virgin plastic is used freely and inefficiently, with unfavourable economics for most recycling, leading to a stark discrepancy between how much plastic is produced and how much is recycled.
The Great UK Soft Plastics Scandal
Plastic pollution resulting from rampant overproduction of plastics and their lifecycles is irreversible, directly undermines our health, drives biodiversity loss, exacerbates climate change, and risks generating large-scale harmful environmental changes.
Convention on Plastic Pollution – Essential Elements – Reporting and Monitoring
A global reporting and monitoring framework is sine qua non for the incoming global plastics treaty.
Convention on Plastic Pollution – Essential Elements – Finance
A global treaty (i.e. convention) on plastics will require financial resources to achieve its objectives, and many models exist in other multilateral environmental agreements from which lessons can be taken.
Connecting the Dots: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency
The toxic pollution resulting from rampant overproduction of virgin plastics and their lifecycles is irreversible, directly undermines our health, drives biodiversity loss, exacerbates climate change, and risks generating large-scale harmful environmental changes.