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Plastic Waste Management for Zero Waste to Landfills: Potential, Challenges, and Opportunities

2024 11 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Florin‐Constantin Mihai, Christia Meidiana, Sherien Elagroudy, Simona-Roxana Ulman, Jutta Gutberlet, Carolina da Silva Carvalho

Summary

Researchers assessed global plastic waste management performance within a zero-waste-to-landfill framework, finding that the linear economy model driving plastic production has outpaced collection and recycling infrastructure, leaving significant contamination across all environmental compartments even in regions with market access.

Linear economy reliance on plastic goods and materials produced by plastic industries translates into plastic pollution of all environmental compartments. The plastic goods reach a global market including remote regions while waste management performances are still...

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