
Pollution
Why Recycling Isn’t the Answer to the Plastic Pollution Problem
Recycling can only get us so far to a sustainable plastic future. The real solution to transforming the plastic economy lies in making less in the first place
Kristian Syberg is an environmental risk researcher at Roskilde University in Denmark.
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