Beyond recycling: how to solve the plastic waste crisis
Only a small percentage of plastic waste is actually recycled, and most of it ends up in landfills or the environment. Image: Pexels/Mali Maeder
Cressida Bowyer
Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth
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