In an open article Isabel Hilton, CEO and Editor of chinadialogue, explains that if we valued plastic differently, we would recover its embedded energy and greatly reduce pollution both in the oceans and on land...

Since the 1950s, more than nine billion tonnes of plastics have been manufactured. 90% of it has been discarded, threatening ocean life, filling, tens of thousands of landfill sites worldwide and damaging human health. The chemicals that leach from plastics have been found in the blood and tissue of people all over the world and have been linked to cancers, birth defects, impaired immunity and endocrine disruption . . .