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How can businesses move faster and smarter on plastic waste?

Eliot Whitington, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
clock 26 March 2018 •

CISL's Eliot Whittington explains why collaboration may be key to solving the plastic problem

If modern plastics were unveiled today as a new innovation, they would be rightly hailed as a stunning breakthrough: a family of materials that is cheap, durable, flexible, waterproof and lightweight;...

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