A new World Bank report shows that the world is struggling to deal with ever-growing quantities of waste.
- Lecturer in Resource Efficiency Systems, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds
- Associate Professor, Waste and Resource Engineering, Imperial College London
Pinpointing the biggest pollution hotspots helps to design more targeted ways to deal with plastic waste.
But how the world will get to zero pollution is still uncertain – and production caps are untested.
Two billion people worldwide lack a dedicated system of waste collection and management.
Plastic flows to the world’s waterbodies could double over the next two decades.
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