🔴🚨BREAKING 🆕 Minderoo Plastic Waste Makers Index 2023 #plasticstreaty🧵
1️⃣Put a levy on fossil-fuel polymer production & consumption
2️⃣ Investors to engage with investees to stop the building of 🆕 fossil fuel-based polymer facilities, or divest
READ: bit.ly/3JHEFZC
1️⃣Put a levy on fossil-fuel polymer production & consumption
2️⃣ Investors to engage with investees to stop the building of 🆕 fossil fuel-based polymer facilities, or divest
READ: bit.ly/3JHEFZC
➡️Company scorecards bit.ly/3I07rDA
“Despite rising consumer awareness, corporate attention, and regulation, an additional 6MMT of waste was generated in 2021 compared to 2019 — still almost entirely made from fossil fuel-based “virgin” precursors.
#plasticpollution
#plasticpollution
“In 2021, an estimated 402MT of polymer – across 14 discrete polymer types – were converted into a similar volume of plastic products.”
“Across all polymers,
the total volume
of single-use plastics to be ~ 139MMT ( 135 MMT of Packaging and 4 MMT of single-use Consumer & Institutional Products)”
the total volume
of single-use plastics to be ~ 139MMT ( 135 MMT of Packaging and 4 MMT of single-use Consumer & Institutional Products)”
“Twenty polymer producers account for 50% of the global GHG emissions from single- use plastics”
🫣 at the precursors production GHG emissions (monomers, polymers, additives)
🫣 at the precursors production GHG emissions (monomers, polymers, additives)
👀👀 “ Of the 45 chemical recycling 🦄projects associated with petrochemicals companies that are expected to be operational by 2027, 35 use pyrolysis technologies, where intense heat transforms plastics into liquid oil and other by-products.“
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