Environment Plastic waste could be greatly reduced by taking four steps
Plastic waste often ends up in the environment or on mountains of garbage. A research group from the University of Berkeley in the USA has some unusual news: with four major measures, this incorrectly disposed plastic waste could be reduced by 91 percent.
19.11.2024, 05:35
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The researchers are publishing their ideas shortly before the final round of negotiations on a global UN plastic treaty, which aims to halt the growing plastic pollution in the oceans and on land.
Eight instruments will be discussed at the negotiations in Busan, South Korea, at the end of November. Only four of them would be enough to drastically reduce the amount of unrecycled plastic waste, writes the research team led by Samuel Pottinger in the journal Science.
According to the researchers, the introduction of a 40 percent recycling quota would have the greatest effect. Catharina Bening, head of the Sustainability and Technology working group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, doubts that the measures under discussion could be implemented so easily.
