Thinking differently about waste

A picture of plastic pollution in the Ganges River

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Plastic and carbon emissions are valuable resources we can’t afford to discard

Climate change and plastic waste are both thorny, global issues. They cannot be solved by any one company, government or activist group alone. They require a massive convergence of political and commercial will to fundamentally change the way the world approaches environmental emissions – be they greenhouse gases or plastic.

One way to frame this change is to recognise that these materials should not really be thought of as waste, but valuable resources that are leaking from our processes and supply chains.