Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion
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Abstract Research on the environmental impacts from global value chain of plastics has typically focused disposal phase, considered most harmful to environment and human health. However, production is also responsible for substantial environmental, health socioeconomic impacts. We show that carbon particulate-matter-related footprint doubled since 1995, due mainly growth in coal-based economies. Coal-based emissions have quadrupled causing almost half plastics-related 2015. Plastics-related footprints China’s transportation, Indonesia’s electronics industry India’s construction sector increased more than 50-fold 1995. In 2015, caused 4.5% greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, 6% coal electricity used production. The European Union United States increasingly consumed produced 85% workforce required by was employed abroad, but 80% related added generated domestically. As high-income regions outsourced energy-intensive steps economies, renewable energy investments throughout are critical sustainable consumption plastics.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature sustainability
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2398-9629']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00807-2