Plastic waste
Briefing
29-10-2013
Plastic production increases with GDP: production during the past decade equalled that of the entire 20th century. Plastic waste could become a valuable resource if separate collection circuits were designed to ensure that single-use plastic packaging could be phased out through an effective roadmap towards the circular economy.
Briefing
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- chemistry
- consumption
- deterioration of the environment
- economic analysis
- economic geography
- ECONOMICS
- ENERGY
- energy policy
- energy recovery
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental policy
- EU Member State
- EU production
- EU statistics
- GEOGRAPHY
- INDUSTRY
- marketing
- packaging product
- per capita consumption
- plastics
- production
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- TRADE
- waste
- waste management