Plastics and the circular economy

June 21, 2018

The production of plastics increased by more than twenty-fold between 1964 and 2015, with an annual output of 322 million metric tonnes (Mt), and is expected to double by 2035, and almost quadruple by 2050. Plastics contribute to economic growth, but their current production and use pattern, on a linear model of ‘take, make, use, and dispose’, is a primary driver of natural resource depletion, waste, environmental degradation, climate change, and has adverse human health effects.

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