Two hundred years ago, Thomas Robert Malthus wrote an essay on population growth in which he described how its continuing expansion was controlled by war, famine and disease. Today, we can add another factor: plastic pollution! Over half a century since we shifted from plant-based plastics like Bakelite to inorganic plastics made from petroleum products, plastic production has increased substantially across every walk of life. All modern plastic…
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