Thursday
August 13
2020

Report: Plastics, the Circular Economy and Global Trade

Plastic pollution has become a pressing challenge with damaging effects on human health and environmental well-being. Many governments are seeking ways to decrease single-use plastics and firms are working towards developing more closed-loop plastics to build sustainable value chains. There remains, however, a pressing need to ramp up the “3Rs” – reduce, reuse, and recycle. There is an important cross-border component to doing so.

Photo courtesy of Lisa Risager.

Source: World Economic Forum (link opens in a new window)

Categories
Environment
Tags
circular economy, recycling, SDGs