Interesting https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-01/u-s-must-create-a-post-plastic-economy-scientists-say-in-new-study?
The U.S. plastics industry operated 15,688 manufacturing establishments, employed 758,000 people and made shipments worth $334 billion in 2020. Despite industry claims that plastic can be recycled, only a small portion actually is. The vast majority ends up in landfills.
If America is to control its outsized plastic “leakage,” it needs comprehensive reforms by the end of 2022 that address everything from design and production through disposal, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The National Academies panel made six recommendations:
1) Reduce production through mechanisms such as a cap on virgin-plastic production.
2) Substitute materials that can degrade more quickly or can recycled more easily.
3) Decrease waste by limiting single-use and particularly toxic products.
4) Improve waste management infrastructure.
5) Capture waste by cleaning up beaches and rivers.
6) Minimize at-sea disposing of any litter including sea vessels or platforms.
Take away: Seems like 2) and 3) are in line with GDNP product offering. This is a huge problem and as reccomendation suggest a systemic solutions is required.