Plastic pollution in the world’s ecosystems could cost more than $280 trillion in environmental damage. That’s at least $120 trillion higher than the cost of reducing plastic production and pollution.
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Since the 1950s, billions of tons of plastic have been produced and much of it ends up in the environment – even at the bottom of lakes in Finland.
Toys are the most plastic-intensive consumer goods in the world. So how can we avoid movie tie-in fads adding to the surging plastic waste problem?
The plastic industry uses powerful tactics to convince us it’s not that bad, but in reality many of their green solutions aren’t working.
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Senior research in geology, University of Turku
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Senior Industry Fellow, Environment and Planning, RMIT University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick
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Maître de conférences en économie et membre de la Coalition scientifique pour un traité plastique efficace (https://ikhapp.org/scientistscoalition/), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay