Plastic’s life-cycle costs overwhelmingly fall on poor countries

Grist
By Joseph WintersNov 13, 2023, 4:45 am151 pts
As plastic production has skyrocketed over the past several decades, wealthy countries have benefited enormously — from increasingly lightweight, affordable products, for example. The full social and environmental costs of this plastic boom, however, have been disproportionately offloaded onto poorer people…

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