Want a Solution to Plastic Pollution? Scientists Urge UN to Require Global Reporting
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Want a solution to plastic pollution? Scientists urge UN to require global reporting
Plastic is a wonder material that has molded itself to fit a wide variety of applications. But it comes with a host of drawbacks that aren't fully considered. That's why the United Nations has convened to hammer out a treaty to address plastic pollution.
AGI - Knowing how much plastic is produced in every country, what substances it contains, where it is traded, how much it becomes waste, how much it is recycled and where it ends what is discarded: without a global and compulsory accounting of plastic it will be difficult to build effective policies against pollution now widespread all over the planet. It is the proposal made by Quanyin Tan of the School of Environment of Tsinghua University of …
Scientists urge UN to mandate global reporting to curb plastic pollution
Plastic pollution has become one of the defining environmental challenges of the twenty-first century, and now a team of scientists from the United States and China is calling on the United Nations to do something that, remarkably, no global agreement on plastics has yet required: measure it. In a peer-reviewed perspective published in the journal […]
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