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Turning off the Tap

5 May 2023

Disclaimers The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory or city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] The systems change scenario is a feasible solution The Pew Charitable Trusts and Systemiq (2020) identified a science-based roadmap to significantly reduce the amount of annual plastic pollution in the environment by 80 per cent versus a business-as-usual scenario; while accounting for a range of technical, economic, social and environmental constraints that impact the scale and speed of change in. [...] annual amount costs and revenues is based on the detailed estimation of of waste reaching the ocean, multiplied by the estimated plastic flows along the value chain, with consideration of economic damage caused by the impact of plastic specific capital and operation and management costs for pollution on marine ecosystem services). [...] In France, the fees Third, the investor may not necessarily be the main collected through the EPR schemes for packaging reduce beneficiary of improved sustainability in the context of the the waste management burden of municipalities by over plastics value chain. [...] The critical condition for this to work is ensuring that this extra amount of plastic 17 Market transformations: Creating the marketplace for the new circular plastics economy Photo: Getty Images 18 Analysis shows that circularity in In parallel to the market transformation to circularity, the size of the problem needs to be reduced by turning off the plastics requires the simultaneous tap, i.e.:.

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