Plastics set to overtake coal plants on GHG emissions, new study shows

Mongabay
Oct 22, 2021, 2:54 pm287 pts
Plastics will outpace coal plants in the U.S. by 2030 in terms of their contributions to climate change, according to a new report released Oct. 21 by Beyond Plastics, a project at Bennington College in Vermont. Yet policymakers and businesses are not currently accounting for the plastics industry’s full…

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