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Focus on plastics

Plastics shape the modern world, but between their reliance on fossil fuels and their massive accumulation as waste, plastics are at the heart of a dual environmental crisis. In this Collection, we explore plastics from many perspectives, including biopolymers, recycling, degradability, the issue of microplastics and the vision for a bioplastics circular economy.

A boat floats in an ocean that is full of fish, but also of plastic.

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