The Chinese import ban and its impact on global plastic …
Plastic has become a major commodity on a global scale and has infiltrated almost every aspect of human life. The historic growth in production has outpaced almost all other manufactured materials from 2 million metric tons (MT) produced in 1950 to 322 million MT produced in 2015 (1, 2).A cumulative total of 8.3 billion MT of plastic has been …