Many State are searching for a way to combat their plastic waste issues. Unfortunately, instead of accepting the truth that in order to combat the issue of plastic waste, we, as a society need to make less plastic waste, many of these states are trying to up their general recycling practices. As we know, only around 6% of the 250+ million tons of plastic waste produced is recycled. These new recycling methods sound like a good shift but the truth is that they may require a huge amount of energy, escalating the over all issue of greenhouse gases. According to an expert quoted by Bloomberg Law:
“Advanced recycling sounds like a good thing, but what we found is advanced recycling is really advanced pollution,” NRDC’s Singla said.
