Wave
Breaking the Plastic Wave is a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ, which concludes that, if we fail to act, by 2040 the volume of plastic on the market will double, the annual volume of plastic entering the ocean will almost triple and ocean plastic stocks will quadruple, reaching over 600m tonnes. In contrast, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation shows that a circular economy approach could reduce the annual volume of plastics entering our oceans by 80%, generate savings of $200bn per year, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% and create 700,000 net additional jobs by 2040.
— Wayne Visser
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