The COVID-19 pandemic necessitates a shift to a plastic circular economy

Xiangzhou Yuan; Xiaonan Wang; Binoy Sarkar; Yong Sik Ok

doi:10.1038/s43017-021-00223-2

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitates a shift to a plastic circular economy

Xiangzhou Yuan
, Xiaonan Wang
, Binoy Sarkar
, Yong Sik Ok^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	659-660
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
Volume	2
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00223-2
Publication status	Published - 2021 Oct

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Funding Information:
X.Y. and Y.S.O. were supported through a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (no. 2021R1A2C2011734), and were partly supported by the OJEong Resilience Institute (OJERI) Research Grant from the OJERI, Korea University, Republic of Korea. B.S. was supported by the Lancaster Environment Centre Project.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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Atmospheric Science
Earth-Surface Processes
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Pollution

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