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Would You Like a Bag (Ban) with That? China, which threw global plastic recycling markets into disarray in 2018 with its Green Sword policy banning plastic waste imports, has been ratcheting up domestic regulations to reign in single-use plastics. In January of 2020, China’s National Reform Development Commission announced a stringent policy for a nationwide plastic bag ban by 2022. China is not alone. Bans and taxes on plastic bags are spreading around the globe and they might soon come to your neighborhood, if they haven’t already. A few decades ago they did not exist at all, but now plastic bags sit at the register of seemingly every store in the world. Their proliferation is easy to understand, plastic bags are very resilient and inexpensive for consumers. These qualities also make them an environmental menace. In the Ocean Conservancy’s annual International Coastal Cleanups plastic bags have consistently ranked in the top ten of most commonly found types of pl ....
E-Mail DURHAM, N.C. - Most of the revenues extracted from use of the world s oceans is concentrated among 100 transnational corporations, which have been identified for the first time by researchers at Duke University and the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. Dubbed the Ocean 100, these ocean economy companies collectively generated $1.1 trillion in revenues in 2018, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. If the group were a country, it would have the world s 16th-largest economy, roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product (GDP) of Mexico. Now that we know who some of the biggest beneficiaries from the ocean economy are, this can help improve transparency relating to sustainability and ocean stewardship, said lead author John Virdin, director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Program at Duke s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. The small number of companies that dominate thes ....
E-Mail IMAGE: Revenue share accounted for by the 10 largest companies in each of the eight core industries of the ocean economy. Outer band indicates the respective industry total revenue in 2018. view more Credit: Science Advances For the first time, scientists have identified the 100 transnational corporations (see table) extracting the majority of revenues from economic use of the world s ocean. Dubbed the Ocean 100 , the group of companies generated US$1.1 trillion in revenues in 2018, according to the research published in the journal Science Advances. If the Ocean 100 was a country it would be the 16th largest on Earth, said Henrik Österblom, a co-author on the study from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. By revenue, the Ocean 100 is equivalent to the GDP of Mexico. ....