Plastic production is the problem, and not plastic waste

The industry is happy to shift responsibility onto consumers, but recycling is futile when €200bn is being invested in increasing output, say Lili Fuhr and Jane Patton

Plastic production is the problem, and not plastic waste

The industry is happy to shift responsibility onto consumers, but recycling is futile when €200bn is being invested in increasing output, say Lili Fuhr and Jane Patton

We have long known that plastic in landfills and oceans is a growing environmental risk. More recently, we have come to understand that plastic is an urgent — even deadly — threat to public health, too.

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