Plastics and the Environment

How Earth’s plastic pollution problem could look by 2040

New research shows the scale of the challenge. Image: Photo by Brian Yurasits on Unsplash

Ed Cook
Research Fellow in Circular Economy Systems, University of Leeds
Costas Velis
Lecturer in Resource Efficiency Systems, University of Leeds
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