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Recycling mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes (www.circularonline.co.uk)
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Recycling mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes::New research shows recycling all mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes.

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[–] LetMeEatCake@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This would be good, and mitigating climate change is going to require a solution by a thousand cuts.
To put the 230 megatons in context, global CO2 emissions in 2022 are estimated at ~40 gigatons, and total GHG emissions at ~50 gigatons. This would represent a ~0.5% reduction in emissions. Not bad at all, all told.

[–] inspxtr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

do you know how to estimate the costs for implementation for these countries?

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

No idea, sorry.

[–] exohuman@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why isn’t that already being done? Is there no demand for recycled plastic?

[–] stinkypoopsalot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

The pervasiveness of single use plastics throughout Asia is absolutely beyond comprehension to us in the west.

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