Economic development and people's changing patterns of consumption and production have led to a drastic increase in plastic wastes all over the world. Plastic waste disposal harms the environment and...Cheuk-Fai ChowThe Education University of Hong Kong...
3. The Way Forward As countries respond to the leakage of waste plastic into the environment, particularly our oceans, three high-level, and some might argue, competing, "solutions" are emerging in the global discourse—"ban it", "replace it", "close the tap". In other words, (i) ban...
Everything on "Plastic waste in the U.S." in one document: edited and divided into chapters, including detailed references. Go to report Dr. Horst Stipp EVP, Research & Innovation, Advertising Research Foundation Statistics on"Plastic industry worldwide" ...
Widespread concerns about plastic pollution have compelled many countries to implement measures aimed at reducing plastic waste (PW) leakage into the envir
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Plastic pyrolysis can be used to address the twin problem of plastic waste disposal and depletion of fossil fuel reserves. The demand for plastics has continued to rise since their first production in the 1950s due to their multipurpose, lightness, inexpensiveness, and durable nature. There are...
items is growing rapidly and is unsustainable. The total world plastic production in the first decade of this century has roughly equalled the total plastic production of the entire 20th century. However what has gone unnoticed by almost all of us is the disposal problem this has made and cont...
on shorelines of even the most remote islands and in the deep sea. Annual clean-up operations, costing millions of pounds sterling, are now organized in many countries and on every continent. Here we document global plastics production and the accumu- lation of plastic waste. While plastics ...
19.3Observing and monitoring plastic waste in the ocean This section addresses questions related to observing, monitoring, and predicting the distribution, abundance, and fates of plastic materials in the marine environment. For information on the ecological and human effects of plastics on the environme...
In 2023, the global plastics market was valued at 712 billion U.S. dollars. The plastics market is projected to grow in the coming years to reach a value of more than 1,050 billion U.S. dollars by 2033, registering a CAGR of four percent during the forecast period of 2023 to 2033....