{"id":67694,"date":"2019-10-22T07:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T05:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=67694"},"modified":"2019-10-17T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:29:51","slug":"global-plastics-flow-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/global-plastics-flow-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Plastics Flow Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 250 million tonnes of post-consumer plastic waste worldwide<\/p>\n<p>Collected: 173 million tonnes<br \/>\ndisposed of inappropriately: 63 million tonnes<br \/>\ndumped irresponsibly: 14 million tonnes<\/p>\n<p>Circular economy has top priority in fight against marine littering<br \/>\nPlastics are an important resource that must be recycled and not end up as environmental litter. In order to manage and optimize the flows of material specifically for this purpose, the material flows need to be known. Starting from this shared objective, members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelittersolutions.com\/about-us\/joint-declaration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Plastics Alliance (GPA)<\/a> commissioned a pilot study to investigate global flows of plastics, including the handling of post-consumer plastic waste.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were published during the world&#8217;s leading trade show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k-online.de\/de\/Home\/Home\" target=\"_blank\">K 2019<\/a>. The GPA is a collaboration of 75 associations from the plastics industry that is committed to stemming the escape of plastic waste into the world\u2019s oceans (marine litter).<\/p>\n<p>Core Findings about Material Flows in 2018<br \/>\nThe extensive study provides important numbers about the worldwide production of plastics, about how they are recycled, but also about how valuable, reusable materials are lost.<\/p>\n<p>Structured Data Capture, Global Cooperation, High Rate of Representation<br \/>\nThe Global Plastics Flow Study is an important step towards capturing, processing and evaluating data concerning post-consumer plastic waste in a systematic structure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.k-online.com\/cgi-bin\/md_k\/lib\/pub\/object\/downloadfile.cgi\/Global_Plastics_Flow_Summary_Oct14_2019.pdf?oid=133807&amp;lang=2&amp;ticket=g_u_e_s_t\" target=\"_blank\">Download Study (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 250 million tonnes of post-consumer plastic waste worldwide Collected: 173 million tonnes disposed of inappropriately: 63 million tonnes dumped irresponsibly: 14 million tonnes Circular economy has top priority in fight against marine littering Plastics are an important resource that must be recycled and not end up as environmental litter. In order to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[10416,11966],"supplier":[23763,16267,21410,12116,903],"class_list":["post-67694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-circulareconomy","tag-plastics","supplier-bkv-gmbh","supplier-euromap","supplier-gkv-gesamtverband-kunststoffverarbeitende-industrie-ev","supplier-marine-litter-solutions-com","supplier-verband-deutscher-maschinen-und-anlagenbau-ev-vdma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67694"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=67694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}