Tony R. Walker
@tonyrwalker1.bsky.social
Professor, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Editor, Cambridge Prisms: Plastics
Born at 324 in 🇬🇧
#plasticpollution #singleuseplastic #microplastics #PlasticsTreaty #ClimateChange #SciComm #SciPol
Editor, Cambridge Prisms: Plastics
Born at 324 in 🇬🇧
#plasticpollution #singleuseplastic #microplastics #PlasticsTreaty #ClimateChange #SciComm #SciPol
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#plasticpollution
#Recycling
#Reduce
#Reuse
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#plasticpollution
#Recycling
#Reduce
#Reuse
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
Recycling has been touted as a solution to combat the global plastic pollution crisis,
but recycling rates of 10% are ineffective against annual plastic production of >460
million tonnes. Solutions be...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#plasticpollution
#Recycling
#Reduce
#Reuse
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#plasticpollution
#Recycling
#Reduce
#Reuse
Turning off the tap or drastically reducing production of cheap, subsidized virgin #plastic production will certainly help drive increased domestic #recycling, but until disincentives for low cost virgin #plastics are imposed, then there will be no market demand for #recycled plastics.
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
Recycling has been touted as a solution to combat the global plastic pollution crisis,
but recycling rates of 10% are ineffective against annual plastic production of >460
million tonnes. Solutions be...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Turning off the tap or drastically reducing production of cheap, subsidized virgin #plastic production will certainly help drive increased domestic #recycling, but until disincentives for low cost virgin #plastics are imposed, then there will be no market demand for #recycled plastics.
Exactly!
#Recycling doesn't work, especially without caps on plastic production.
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#Recycling doesn't work, especially without caps on plastic production.
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
Recycling has been touted as a solution to combat the global plastic pollution crisis,
but recycling rates of 10% are ineffective against annual plastic production of >460
million tonnes. Solutions be...
www.cell.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Exactly!
#Recycling doesn't work, especially without caps on plastic production.
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#Recycling doesn't work, especially without caps on plastic production.
Recycling alone cannot end the plastic pollution crisis
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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