Plastic is an increasingly high-profile threat to our climate, ocean, wildlife and human health. Its production has increased twenty times since 19641 and almost half of plastic produced is used just once before it is discarded.2 The mountains of plastic waste generated by people, businesses, food production and almost every other sector of modern life are, on the whole, poorly collected and managed. As a result, plastic pollution is becom-ing widespread both in the ocean and on land, where it is impact-ing our ecosystems and threatening lives and human health.
