Plastic
Our skies may be clearer, but single-use plastic is back and booming. This is an entangled problem. Plastic is useful and we need PPE to fight COVID-19, but we cannot keep toxifying our environment. The task of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and the New Plastics Economy could not be more urgent. Solutions already exist: carbon positive bioplastics, compostable single-use plastics, recyclable PET bottles and polyester textiles and chemical recycling of mixed-grade plastics. But for these solutions to scale, they need economic incentives: carbon pricing, waste taxes, circular economy subsidies, bottle deposit schemes, and better collection and recycling systems.
— Wayne Visser
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