![]() ![]() FFPs take centuries to degrade, meaning five billion tonnes of increasingly fragmented and dangerous plastics have accumulated in our oceans, soil and air. Of the 6.3 billion tonnes of fossil fuel-derived plastic (FFP) waste produced to date, only 9% has been recycled the rest being incinerated (12%) or dumped into the environment (79%). ![]() Marine plastic pollution is a symptom of an inherently wasteful linear plastic economy, costing us more than US$ 2.2 trillion per year. 4School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.3The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.2The Minderoo Foundation, Perth, WA, Australia.1School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.Andrew Forrest 1,2 *, Luca Giacovazzi 2, Sarah Dunlop 1 †, Julia Reisser 2,3, David Tickler 1,2, Alan Jamieson 4 and Jessica J.
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