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A global agreement to end plastic pollution must be based on pertinent, multi-disciplinary knowledge. Consideration of the full life cycle impacts of plastics and substitutes is important to achieve sustainable solutions rather than shifting the burden. Hence, this process requires considerations of fossil-based and biobased feedstocks for plastic...

2019年10月3日に、東京のアンスティチュ・フランセにおいて、プラスチック汚染問題解決の為に協力する科学と公共政策と題する公開セミナーが開催された。IGES・SCPの堀田は、パネリストとして、プラスチック問題解決に向けた政策の状況について紹介した。

Home to roughly 1.8 billion people, South Asia generates approximately 334 million tonnes of waste per year of which 174 million tonnes (57%) is organic in content. In addition to the increase in municipal solid waste, managing complex and emerging waste streams, including e-waste, food waste, construction and demolition waste, disaster waste...