INTRODUCTION
From Linear to Circular
Tom Szaky
Founder and CEO, TerraCycle
BY NOW THE OFT-CITED PROJECTION THAT WE WILL SEE more plastics by weight than fish in the ocean by 20501 has long spread from its origins at the World Economic Forum in early 2017 to headlines in mainstream news outlets. The public now knows that plastic pollution isn’t just the stray piece of litter on the hiking trail or the rogue water bottle on the beach: it’s a global crisis, unsightly and largely unseen, and one that affects us all.
Plastic pollution is no longer an issue out of sight and out of mind. News outlets recently reported that 94 percent of tap water samples collected in the United States tested positive for microplastic2—those tiny, often microscopic particles ...
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