MSSpotlight Environment and Sustainability: Limiting plastic output protects the environment
Like all other World Environment Day celebrations before, stakeholders from across the globe, from major corporations to governments to private citizens, have come together to implement steps to contribute to environmental protection.
Global plastic production and use have grown exponentially since the 1950s, with around nine million workers in polymer production and plastic processing industries. The world currently produces 430 million metric tons of plastic annually, with two-thirds being short-lived products that eventually become waste, specifically single-use plastics.
For instance, the first shift is to reuse. It encourages the market to accelerate reusable products to transform the throwaway economy into a reuse society by creating an enabling environment to ensure a more relevant business case for the reuse market than single-use plastics. Lastly, instead of merely jumping to recycle plastic materials like the traditional model, the UNEP report suggests the third shift in managing plastic waste among industries is to reorient and diversify. This shapes the market to embrace sustainable alternatives and avoid plastic products that could displace impacts instead of reducing them. These sustainable options can reduce pollution by 17 percent by 2040.
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