Rob Opsomer is the Systemic Initiatives Lead at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Before arriving at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Rob worked for five years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he was an Engagement Manager and focused on resource productivity and finance.
More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean each year, yet the three biggest clean-ups deal with just 0.5% of that pollution.
塑料无处不在。它可以保护我们的食物，让飞机更加轻便，帮助风力涡轮机运转。然而，目前的塑料回收利用体系尚不健全。只有14%的塑料包装得到循环处理，这给全球经济造成了每年高达800亿到1200亿美元的损失。许多塑料制品仅仅使用一次就被丢弃，最终导致环境污染。如果我们坐视不管，那么到2050年，海洋中的塑料可能会比鱼还要多。
Innovation in materials, product design, and circular business models will help build a new plastics economy.
In just over half a century, plastics have become pervasive throughout the economy due to their versatility and cost-effectiveness, growing their production volumes twenty-fold. Yet along...
Plastics are fundamental to industry and everyday life. Yet they are one of the most wasteful examples of our existing linear, take-make-dispose economy.
'The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics.' report provides, for the first time, a vision of a global economy in which plastics never become waste, and outlines concret...
