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ClearGlobal Plastic Industry Transition Addressing Key Drivers of the Triple Planetary Crisis
Researchers modelled global and regional transition scenarios for the plastic industry, integrating strategies to reduce fossil fuel dependence and shift to circular production models. They found that addressing plastic pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss simultaneously requires a coordinated policy package across the full plastic value chain.
Chemicals management approach to sustainable development of materials
This review examines how chemicals management approaches must evolve for sustainable materials development, arguing that planetary boundaries and path-dependent industrial trajectories require rethinking how chemicals including plastics are produced and regulated.
Chemistry must respond to the crisis of transgression of planetary boundaries
This paper argued that chemistry as a discipline must urgently respond to the transgression of planetary boundaries, including those related to chemical pollution. The study outlined three steps: understanding the threats from a chemistry perspective, developing sustainable solutions through innovation, and transforming chemistry education and industry toward sustainability and circularity.
An anthropocene-framed transdisciplinary dialog at the chemistry-energy nexus
Researchers analyzed key molecules at the chemistry-energy nexus, including carbon dioxide, hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and synthetic polymers, within the planetary boundary framework. The study suggests that the energy transition will require major shifts in how these molecules are produced and used, with implications for reducing plastic pollution and other environmental impacts tied to the chemical industry.
GlobalPlastic Industry Transition Addressing KeyDrivers of the Triple Planetary Crisis
Researchers modelled global and regional transition scenarios for the plastic industry to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. They found that an integrated suite of policy measures—including production caps, extended producer responsibility, and recycling investment—is needed to achieve meaningful co-benefits across all three planetary challenges.
GlobalPlastic Industry Transition Addressing KeyDrivers of the Triple Planetary Crisis
Researchers modelled global and regional transition scenarios for the plastic industry to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. They found that an integrated suite of policy measures—including production caps, extended producer responsibility, and recycling investment—is needed to achieve meaningful co-benefits across all three planetary challenges.
The Road towards a Resilient Base Petrochemical Industry in Indonesia: A Transformative Scenario Planning Approach
Researchers applied transformative scenario planning to analyze pathways toward a resilient base petrochemical industry in Indonesia, examining how this strategically important sector can adapt amid global shifts in energy, materials, and sustainability demands. The study develops scenarios that account for the petrochemical industry's deep integration into modern society while mapping options for long-term competitiveness and reduced environmental impact.
Expanding plastics recycling technologies: chemical aspects, technology status and challenges
This review examined the full life cycle of plastics and evaluated options for managing plastic waste, with a focus on chemical recycling technologies. The study suggests that overcoming barriers to industrial chemical recycling could open new opportunities for reducing plastic pollution.
Defossilising fuels and chemicals – a systemic analysis from feedstock and technology, to hurdles and enablers
A systemic analysis examined the pathways and challenges of replacing fossil-derived fuels and chemicals with bio-based alternatives, highlighting trade-offs in sustainability and scalability. The work is relevant to reducing the fossil-plastic pipeline that drives ongoing microplastic pollution.
Resources for Defossilized Chemical Production in the United States
Researchers analyzed the feasibility of defossilizing U.S. chemical production by replacing fossil fuel feedstocks and energy carriers with non-fossil alternatives, finding sufficient domestic non-fossil feedstock availability with regional advantages. The study maps potential feedstock sources and processing locations and identifies enabling technologies for building fossil-free chemical supply chains.
Carbon for Chemicals:How can biomass contribute to the defossilisation of the chemicals sector?
This study examines how biomass feedstocks can contribute to defossilising the chemicals sector, analyzing pathways for replacing fossil-derived carbon with bio-based carbon in chemical manufacturing processes.
First Steps Toward Sustainable Circular Uses of Chemicals: Advancing the Assessment and Management Paradigm
This article advances a framework for sustainable circular use of chemicals, proposing updated assessment and management approaches to reduce chemical hazards while enabling circularity in industrial and consumer product systems.
Replacing all petroleum-based chemical products with natural biomass-based chemical products: a tutorial review
This tutorial review explores the feasibility of replacing petroleum-based chemical products with alternatives derived from natural biomass. The study examines the current ratio of petroleum-derived chemical production and outlines pathways for transitioning to plant-based and other renewable feedstocks. The review suggests that biomass-based replacements could significantly reduce plastic pollution and dependence on fossil fuels.
Chemistry and materials science for a sustainable circular polymeric economy
Researchers reflected on the fundamental chemistry challenges limiting a circular plastic economy — including the sheer variety of polymer types, contamination during use, and imperfect recycling — and argued that solving plastic pollution requires both chemical innovation and systemic non-chemical interventions.
Enabling forecasts of environmental exposure to chemicals in European agriculture under global change
This review identifies research needed to forecast environmental chemical exposure in European agriculture under global change, examining how climate change, circular economy practices, and evolving pesticide use will alter contaminant fate and transport.
Performance evaluation of biogenic CO2‐based renewable chemicals: A holistic life cycle assessment and multi‐criteria approach
Researchers conducted an integrated life cycle assessment and life cycle costing analysis of emerging bioprocesses that convert biogenic CO2 into value-added chemicals through gas and liquid fermentation pathways, applying a multi-criteria decision-making framework combining analytic hierarchy process and TOPSIS methods. The study evaluated the environmental and economic performance of these carbon utilization routes as potential pathways for decarbonizing the chemical sector.
A critical review on sustainable hazardous waste management strategies: a step towards a circular economy
Researchers review global strategies for managing hazardous industrial and household waste — including chemicals, heavy metals, and electronic waste — with a focus on aligning disposal practices with circular economy principles that minimize environmental and health harm. The review finds that prevention, recycling, and advanced treatment technologies must work together, guided by stronger international policy frameworks.
The Future of Chemical Sciences is Sustainable
This perspective discusses how chemistry as a discipline must embrace sustainability across environmental, economic, and equity dimensions. Researchers propose a framework of priorities and metrics to help guide chemical sciences toward more sustainable practices. The study highlights the role chemistry plays in addressing global challenges including plastic pollution and the development of greener materials.
Strategic selection tool for thermoplastic materials in a renewable circular economy: Identifying future circular polymers
Researchers developed a strategic material selection tool to guide the transition toward a renewable circular economy for thermoplastics, helping identify which polymers can meet performance requirements while being decoupled from fossil feedstocks and compatible with biodegradation or closed-loop recycling.
How much are we responsible for removing ocean plastic pollution ?
Researchers developed an integrated system dynamics and input-output model to simulate global marine plastic waste trends through 2050, quantifying the economic effort required from producers and consumers to achieve plastic removal targets across shoreline, coastal, and offshore ocean domains.