68% of single-use plastic waste comes from e-commerce activities, with plastic bags, bubble wrap, and plastic bottles being the most common types of waste.

The discovery of plastic-eating bacteria offers a nature-based recycling method, but the slow processing speed and concerns about genetically modified bacteria leaking into the environment pose challenges.

A nickel-based catalyst can selectively break down PE and PP plastics, which make up almost two-thirds of global plastic waste, eliminating the need for sorting.

The misleading message of "use as much plastic as you want, it will be recycled" from ExxonMobil and other plastic production supporters ignores the fact that only 6 out of every 100 discarded plastic items are actually recycled.