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Circularity and Plastics--A Workshop

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The National Academies will convene a workshop to explore circularity and other approaches for sustainable lifecycle management of plastic materials to mitigate plastic pollution. The workshop will consider solutions including rethinking, redesign, reuse, remaking, and recycling, and how these strategies can be implemented to minimize plastic waste and the attendant impacts on human and environmental health.

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An ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will plan and host a workshop to holistically consider circular strategies and solutions for sustainable lifecycle management of plastic materials, including reduction of plastic waste through redesign, reuse, remaking, and recycling. Specifically, the workshop will discuss:

  • context and conditionality of circularity;
  • plastic design for circularity;
  • tools for circularity and plastics;
  • data needs for circularity; and
  • policy for circularity and plastics.

A Proceedings of a Workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Contributors

Committee

Chair

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Caroline Bell

Staff Officer

Liana Vaccari

Staff Officer

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Sponsors

American Beverage Association

Department of Energy

Environmental Law Institute

ExxonMobil

Internal Funding

Long Ridge Foundation

Monterey Bay Aquarium

National Academy of Sciences Arthur L. Day Fund

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Science Foundation

Procter & Gamble Company

S.C. Johnson

The Ocean Foundation

Staff

Caroline Bell

Lead

Liana Vaccari

Lead

Safah Wyne

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