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Plastic sachets and negative externalities

28th February 2020

Peak Guardian re: plastic waste or a worthwhile nod towards another area where action has a limited opportunity cost and welfare gains exceed the cost of intervention?

Troubling fact: 855 billion plastic sachets are used every year globally, enough to cover the entire surface of the Earth

Proud to support the campaign to #SacktheSachet - billions of these are thrown away every year (many unopened), another single use plastic culprit which has been flying under the radar, until today ⁦@aplastic_planet⁩ https://t.co/6ahhgqptZb
— Richard Walker (@icelandrichard) February 26, 2020

Graham Watson

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