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