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Prevention is crucial to tackling plastic waste crisis

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Article Published 17 Jun 2019 Last modified 11 May 2021

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Plastic waste remains a huge and growing problem. But what is the European Union doing to address the issue? Ioannis Bakas, the EEA’s waste prevention expert gives a brief overview of the EEA’s report on preventing plastic waste in Europe, which was published earlier this month.