Plastic Credits (IMAGE)

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Plastic Credits

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Even though plastic credits are being promoted as an innovative way of addressing plastic pollution, they could have exactly the opposite effect and exacerbate the crisis, as they can create loopholes and undermine efforts to reduce plastics by facilitating business-as-usual production growth. 

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Sangcheol Moon

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