Breaking the Plastic Wave: ocean plastic inflow could nearly triple by 2040
Business as usual takes annual plastic flows into the ocean from 11 to 29 million tonnes by 2040, but existing solutions together could cut…
Policy and law
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Land-to-sea plastic flows are 4–9 times higher than the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) assumes
Independent modelling finds far more plastic reaches the sea than OECD scenarios assume, and microplastic levels stay high to 2060 even under ambitious policy.
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): full-lifecycle policies could cut plastic leakage 96% by 2040
Modelling shows that ambitious global policies across the whole plastics lifecycle could almost end plastic leakage by 2040; waste management alone cannot.
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Without new policy, plastic waste will almost triple by 2060
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) projects plastic use rising to 1,231 million tonnes and waste to 1,014 million tonnes by 2060,…