Strategies to reduce the global carbon footprint of plastics

Volume: 9, Issue: 5, Pages: 374 - 378
Published: May 1, 2019
Abstract
Over the past four decades, global plastics production has quadrupled1. If this trend were to continue, the GHG emissions from plastics would reach 15% of the global carbon budget by 20502. Strategies to mitigate the life-cycle GHG emissions of plastics, however, have not been evaluated on a global scale. Here, we compile a dataset covering ten conventional and five bio-based plastics and their life-cycle GHG emissions under various mitigation...
Paper Details
Title
Strategies to reduce the global carbon footprint of plastics
DOI
Published Date
May 1, 2019
Journal
Volume
9
Issue
5
Pages
374 - 378
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