Submission—NSW Plastics: Next steps consultation

On 12 February 2024, the Academy made a submission to the NSW Plastics: Next Steps consultation.

The submission makes the following comments:

Different types of plastic have different materials with different properties, and many can continue to be a resource if recycled.
Reducing plastic pollution will require monitoring protocols, a coordinated plastic pollution database, and a sustained multidisciplinary research agenda focusing on plastics that can degrade into harmless components, as well as developing technologies to recycle currently non-recyclable plastics.
Science can transform how plastic is made, used, recycled and disposed.

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