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Cross-sector cooperation must drive solutions to global plastic crisis

Last year at the Global Plastics Summit in Houston, one by one companies representing business from across the plastics supply and packaging chain took to the lectern (plastic-made, of course) to talk about what their organizations were doing in response to the world’s crisis in plastics waste.

Solutions put forward ranged from new technology that would take plastic back to its molecular building

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