Plastic waste management: Rethinking a circular economy

A WORLD without plastics or synthetic organic polymers seems unimaginable. The most enduring, insidious and intimate product in the world, it is everywhere and the evidence is unmistakable; we are living in The Plastic Age (The “Plasticene”).

Cheap, flexible and multipurpose plastic has become the ubiquitous material of today’s fast-moving economy.

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