Strategies to reduce the global carbon footprint of plastics

By Jiajia Zheng, Sangwon Suh. Nature Climate Change, 2019

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Face Masks in the New COVID-19 Normal: Materials, Testing, and Perspectives (2020, background): “7 kg CO2e, was released from the polymer resin production stage [339].”
Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution (2020, background): “At a global scale, the absolute and relative contribution of flexible monomaterial plastics to environmental pollution grew between 2016 and 2040, from 45% [35, 56] to 56% [40, 73] in aquatic environments and from 37% [18, 52] to 48% [22, 67] in terrestrial environments (Fig.”
Plastics in the US: toward a material flow characterization of production, markets and end of life (2020, background): “8% of global greenhouse gas emissions in that year [9], and in the United States (US), plastics production accounts for 1% of national greenhouse gas emissions [10].”
Minimising the present and future plastic waste, energy and environmental footprints related to COVID-19 (2020, neutral): “Zheng and Suh [39] stated that replacing fossil-based energy with renewables can reduce the environmental footprint of plastic significantly, especially GHGs. Plastics have characteristics that are important for applications related to the management of COVID-19.”