How to create a ‘world without waste’? Here are the plastic industry’s ideas.

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By Joseph WintersJul 2, 2024, 4:43 am177 pts
In the time it takes you to read this sentence — say, four seconds — the world produces nearly 60 metric tons of plastic, almost entirely out of fossil fuels. That’s about 53,000 metric tons an hour, 1.3 million metric tons a day, or 460 million metric tons a year. Those numbers are fueling widespread and…

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