Facts about Plastic

Plastic is everywhere: in our air, our water, our soils, our food, our bodies. We are only just beginning to understand the effects of our global reliance on this material. What makes plastic useful is exactly what makes it harmful: it persists. As more than 99% of plastic is made from fossil fuels, the life-cycle of plastic poses a multitude of problems. In order to fight the plastic flood, we need to know the facts about plastic production and pollution.

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Clean-ups or cleanwashing? How plastic pollution cleanup technology can actually harm the environment and obstruct policy progress (2023)

Plastic clean-ups have proliferated in response to the growing plastic crisis. Such clean-ups may involve large-scale unsupervised methods of plastic collection that do not discriminate between aquatic life, plastic and organic matter. As a result, the rise of these plastic cleanup technologies has raised red flags in civil society and academia.
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