Businesses can apply the circular economy model to help the government reduce plastic waste and prevent its release into the ocean, which threatens to have a serious impact on the marine ecosystem and human health.
Without good waste management, it is expected that there will be up to 12 billion tonnes of plastic garbage in the environment in 2050, said Kare Helge Karstensen, chief scientist and manager of the Ocean Plastic Turned into an Opportunity in Circular Economy (OPTOCE) project under the Norwegian Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research.
