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Real vs. False Solutions to Plastic Pollution
Read More »: Real vs. False Solutions to Plastic PollutionFalse solutions do not adequately or effectively address plastic pollution and its serious impacts. Corporations that profit by dealing in petrochemicals and plastics seek to offer up false solutions to the plastic pollution crisis so that they can distract and confuse the media and the public, which prevents actual progress in reducing plastic production.
Stemming the Plastic-Climate Crisis
Read More »: Stemming the Plastic-Climate CrisisThis report presents new global modeling of policy action needed to reduce emissions from the plastics and petrochemical industries to mitigate the climate crisis. It lays out how the United Nations Plastics Treaty presents the opportunity to build and implement a full approach to ending plastic pollution and its full range of impacts on human…
Plastic Waste Trade: The Hidden Number
Read More »: Plastic Waste Trade: The Hidden NumberThis report written by an international group of scientists and engineers illuminates the realities of the global waste trade in which higher-income countries generate and ship wastes, specifically plastics, to lower-income nations. The report reveals the extent to which environmental injustice and pollution are fueled by the global trade in plastic wastes—which is more than…
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