Connecting the Dots: Plastic Pollution and the Planetary Emergency

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This report sounds the alarm on pollution caused by plastic throughout its lifecycle by exposing how it drives pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change, compromises human health and poses a direct threat to planetary boundaries. Based on this, it provides recommendations on how to ensure multidimensional, long-term and collaborative policy that considers plastic pollution as a planetary boundary threat and takes into account its knock-on impacts on other environmental crises.