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Trade in Scrap Materials: Looking Beyond Plastics
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: Received: 1 October 2020 / Approved: 2 October 2020 / Online: 2 October 2020 (13:56:05 CEST)
How to cite: Pacini, H.; Golbeck, J. Trade in Scrap Materials: Looking Beyond Plastics. Preprints 2020, 2020100044. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0044.v1 Pacini, H.; Golbeck, J. Trade in Scrap Materials: Looking Beyond Plastics. Preprints 2020, 2020100044. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0044.v1
Abstract
Growing evidence about the negative socio-environmental consequences of plastic pollution led to various initiatives for better plastic scrap governance and its trade. At the same time, an examination of recent data shows that plastic scrap represents only a fraction of recyclable materials which are traded internationally and are also subject to similar problems of cross-border environmental governance. A limited analysis comparing plastics, textiles, paper and ferrous metals suggests that ongoing momentum for improvement of plastic scrap governance and circularity should also be framed to consider other types of secondary materiais.
Supplementary and Associated Material
https://comtrade.un.org/: Primary trade data source
Keywords
Scrap; waste; materials; trade; resource flows; embedded emissions; circular economy
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Waste Management and Disposal
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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