Virgin
The good news is that “peak virgin plastic” appears to have been achieved by the 130 signatories of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s circular economy for plastics Global Commitment, with predictions that it will fall 20% by 2025 against a 2018 baseline. The bad news is that less than 2% of signatories’ plastic packaging is reusable, and for more than half of all signatories, this is 0%. The problem is that petrochemical companies – and by implication, we as customers – are not paying the full societal and environmental cost of virgin plastic. The time for a carbon tax is long overdue.
— Wayne Visser
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