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This chapter also provides an outlook for innovation and alternative plastic materials to help advance national and global #plastic waste management strategies for a global sustainable transition towards zero-plastic #waste. https://t.co/3H6cL1aoUo

This chapter highlights why unsustainable global #plastic production, use, and mismanagement has resulted in more than 75% of the plastic ever produced now existing as waste. https://t.co/3H6cL1aoUo

Currently, governments and industry are implementing solutions and establishing ambitious targets to reduce #plasticwaste and improve sustainability, yet plastic waste generation is still outpacing these new policies and regulations. https://t.co/3H6cL1a