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The PEW Trusts’ Breaking the Plastic Wave, highlights an uncomfortable truth: even our most updated recycling commitments are inadequate for the scale of the challenge we face if we are to avoid drowning our oceans in plastic and overheating our planet. The report estimates that by 2040, 29 million metric tons of plastic per year will have entered the oceans. That’s the equivalent to 50 kg/110+ pounds of plastic per meter of coastline worldwide. Because plastic remains in the ocean for hundreds of years and may never biodegrade, the cumulative amount of plastic stock in the ocean could ...

Who Pays the Bill for Plastic Waste? China’s 2018 National Sword Policy ended the country’s role as the recycling bin for the world’s post-consumer plastic scrap and threw global recycling markets into disarray. Reeling on the other side of the globe, American cities were forced to store, incinerate, or throw collected recyclables into landfills. Faced with a rapidly diminishing landfill capacity, China is consolidating and formalizing its domestic recycling industry, an expensive and daunting task. Cities around the world are struggling with the costs and logistics of collecting and so...