Recycling mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes::New research shows recycling all mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes.
This would be good, and mitigating climate change is going to require a solution by a thousand cuts.
To put the 230 megatons in context, global CO2 emissions in 2022 are estimated at ~40 gigatons, and total GHG emissions at ~50 gigatons. This would represent a ~0.5% reduction in emissions. Not bad at all, all told.do you know how to estimate the costs for implementation for these countries?
No idea, sorry.
Why isn’t that already being done? Is there no demand for recycled plastic?
The pervasiveness of single use plastics throughout Asia is absolutely beyond comprehension to us in the west.
