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  • Policy making is entering a phase of more transformative strategies targeting the full life cycle of plastics, argues Patrick Schröder.

    • Patrick Schröder
    World View
  • The rapid increase in plastics waste is worrying, but approaching sufficiency in a broader sense can tackle much more than plastic waste streams only, argues Sylvia Lorek.

    • Sylvia Lorek
    World View
  • When strategizing the design of sustainable polymers, the timescale must be an essential dimension, that is, even for bio-based and/or biodegradable plastics their resource utilization should not outpace resource regeneration, argues Eugene Chen.

    • Eugene Y.-X. Chen
    World View
  • Orchestrating a global transition to a sustainable world economy seems both urgent and surpassingly daunting. J.R. McNeill asks whether there is a workaround.

    • J. R. McNeill
    World View
  • A mission-oriented approach to transform capitalism is the only way to make progress towards sustainable development, argues Mariana Mazzucato.

    • Mariana Mazzucato
    World View