Here's how we can eradicate plastic pollution by 2040
Source: weforum.org, Date: , 2020
A new analysis published in the journal
Science shows that the business-as-usual approach to tackling ocean plastic
pollution isn't working. Even worse, should we continue down the current
trajectory, the amount of plastic waste entering the ocean is set to triple by
2040.
But what's unique about this study is that
it focuses on the solutions that can stop this crisis in its tracks. Using all
the technology that exists today, we can reduce ocean plastic flows by 80% and with additional investment channelled into innovation, we can get closer to
100%.
In countries like Indonesia, whose
abundant coastlines, rich biodiversity and marine economy are under acute
threat from the rise in plastic pollution, action simply cannot afford to wait
any longer. That's why Indonesia has become the first nation to put many of the
recommendations from this study into practice.