With plastics pollution and its multi-faceted consequences having long emerged as a major global environmental challenge, a new United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) assessment is now pointing to the likelihood of the problem becoming twice as bad in less than a decade.
Worryingly, the report says that the dramatic worsening of the global plastics pollution problem is certain to impact directly and significantly on global human health, the international economy, biodiversity, and climate, issues which in themselves, are regarded as major stand-alone concerns.
