As more countries ban waste imports, plastic waste generators like the US will need to find better solutions. A few states are putting more responsibility on producers.
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Pinpointing the biggest pollution hotspots helps to design more targeted ways to deal with plastic waste.
To manage plastic wastes, nations first need to know what they have and where it’s coming from. A case study from Trinidad and Tobago shows how this approach can help identify solutions.
Waste-to-energy incineration has been raised as a solution to the global plastic waste problem, but the technology adds pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and encourages more waste production.
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Professor of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Management, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Research Fellow, Plastics Pollution, University of Leeds
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Research Associate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
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Lecturer in Resource Efficiency Systems, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds; Imperial College London
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Assistant Professor of Geography and Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder