Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy CCPEOECD published the Global Plastics Outlook
Newsflash, 4th April 2022
The Global Plastics Outlook: Economic Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Policy Options provides policymakers with a comprehensive overview of the challenges ahead and potential solutions.
The report uncovers the economic drivers that give rise to unprecedented volumes of plastics use and waste. It offers a unique quantified picture of the full lifecycle of plastics globally, including production, consumption, waste, recycling, disposal, leakage and greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally the Outlook presents four relevant levers to reduce the environmental impacts of plastics: markets for recycled (secondary) plastics, technological innovation in plastics, domestic policy measures and international co-operation.
Source: OECD (2022), Global Plastics Outlook: Economic Drivers, Environmental Impacts and Policy Options, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/de747aef-en.