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If relevant stakeholders – from government to industry and consumers – play their part, recyclability can be improved and plastic pollution eliminated, believes NGO WRAP.
The findings are the result of a five-year research project and dwarf earlier estimates that the figure was around 250,000 tonnes.
Plastic can travel hundreds to thousands of miles once it leaks into the environment.
Senators examined reusable packaging systems as alternatives to single-use plastics and other packaging in the latest in a series of hearings on plastics concerns.
The world’s linear economy, critically labeled as “take-make-waste,” is blamed for many global environmental problems, including climate change. The circular economy — focused on conserving resources and material reuse — is a proposed alternative.