Plastic pollution could triple by 2040. New study offers four solutions

A new Pew model tracking 52 plastics and seven microplastic sources shows the crisis accelerating, with health and climate harms rising fast. It provides four interventions — reducing virgin plastic, redesigning materials, scaling reuse and boosting transparency — could reverse the trend

Plastic pollution could triple by 2040. New study offers four solutions
A new Pew model tracking 52 plastics and seven microplastic sources shows the crisis accelerating, with health and climate harms rising fast. It provides four interventions — reducing virgin plastic, redesigning materials, scaling reuse and boosting transparency — could reverse the trend