TY - JOUR
T1 - Approaches to solving China’s marine plastic pollution and CO2 emission problems
AU - Lin, Chen
AU - Nakamura, Shinichiro
N1 - Funding Information:
The work of C. L. was supported, in part, by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China (17XNB006).
Funding Information:
This work of C. L. was supported, in part, by Fundamental Research Funds for Universities, and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China [17XNB006].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/4/3
Y1 - 2019/4/3
N2 - Global contamination of the oceans by waste plastics is of increasing concern. Besides being the largest emitter of CO2 in the world, China is suspected of being the largest contributor to marine plastic waste pollution. Responsible for the latter is the still inadequate management of waste in China, a significant improvement of which is necessary for addressing the issue of marine plastic pollution. Since plastics are hydrocarbons, submitting them to appropriate waste treatment/recycling technologies could contribute to mitigating the emission of CO2, indicating the possibility of addressing the two environmental issues simultaneously. Based on the combined use of waste input–output and linear programming, we investigated options for mitigating CO2 emissions under consideration of alternative waste treatment/recycling processes applied to waste plastics of China. It was found that of the nine processes considered, four could result in a net reduction in the emission: a win-win situation.
AB - Global contamination of the oceans by waste plastics is of increasing concern. Besides being the largest emitter of CO2 in the world, China is suspected of being the largest contributor to marine plastic waste pollution. Responsible for the latter is the still inadequate management of waste in China, a significant improvement of which is necessary for addressing the issue of marine plastic pollution. Since plastics are hydrocarbons, submitting them to appropriate waste treatment/recycling technologies could contribute to mitigating the emission of CO2, indicating the possibility of addressing the two environmental issues simultaneously. Based on the combined use of waste input–output and linear programming, we investigated options for mitigating CO2 emissions under consideration of alternative waste treatment/recycling processes applied to waste plastics of China. It was found that of the nine processes considered, four could result in a net reduction in the emission: a win-win situation.
KW - LP
KW - Plastic waste
KW - WIO
KW - marine contamination
KW - waste management
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U2 - 10.1080/09535314.2018.1486808
DO - 10.1080/09535314.2018.1486808
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85049657019
SN - 0953-5314
VL - 31
SP - 143
EP - 157
JO - Economic Systems Research
JF - Economic Systems Research
IS - 2
ER -
