Plastik Atıkların Çevresel Kuznets Hipotezi ile İncelenmesi: Avrupa Birliği Ülkeleri Üzerine Ampirik Bir Çalışma

Plastics have become an indispensable part of modern life. Although plastics, which waste after use, are recycled for the economy, they a critical problem because many cause environmental pollution and threaten It is known that use plastics has increased rapidly in parallel with increase income emerged from increasing industrialization since 1950s. According to Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, there inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth. Considering importance plastic problem, should also be evaluated EKC approach. For this purpose, panel data analysis was applied European Union countries. Research findings show validates EU countries 2004 2019. This shows policies planned around Plastic Waste EKC.