Plastic Waste Makers Index

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• Law or Bill

  India ban on identified single-use plastics

  India | In force since July 2022

  Bans the making, sale and use of a list of low-utility single-use items, such as plastic cutlery, straws and thin carry bags, from July 2022.

  Policy and advocacy
• Research

  An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles

  Tournier, V. et al. | Nature | 2020

  An engineered enzyme depolymerized 90 percent of PET in about 10 hours, and the recovered building blocks were made into new bottles. The science behind Carbios.

  Collection and recyclingResearch and science
• Research

  Our World in Data: Plastic Pollution

  Our World in Data | Our World in Data | Updated regularly

  Free, regularly updated charts on plastic production, waste handling and ocean inputs by country. Good for presentations.

  Education and communityResearch and science
• Research

  Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

  Jambeck, J. et al. | Science | 2015

  First global estimate of plastic entering the ocean from land, and a clear case that better waste management in fast-growing economies is the biggest lever.

  Collection and recyclingResearch and science