A tax on new plastic would slash waste – if built into the global treaty on plastics
- Written by Amelia Leavesley, Research Fellow in Urban Sustainability, The University of Melbourne
Mohamed Abdulraheem/ShutterstockEarlier this week, the mining magnate Andrew Forrest made headlines calling for a global “polymer premium” – or plastic tax – to be placed on every tonne of newly manufactured plastics. A tax like this could form part of the Global Plastic Treaty being hammered out right now in Busan, South...
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