Breaking the plastics chain: How can financial institutions be part of the pollution solution?

Curb funding to packaging offenders

The proliferation of single-use plastics, and the resulting pollution, is spiralling out of control.

Harmful plastic packaging-induced pollution now permeates the world's deepest oceans and highest peaks with the average person eating about 100 particles of microplastics in every meal, according to portfolio.earth's latest report, Bankrolling Plastics.  At the present rate of growth, plastics production is estimated to double within the next two decades. To mitigate current and future environmental damage, the plastics industry needs to quickly transition to producing the sustainable plastics of tomorrow. At the heart of sustainability: ESG principles have always been a part of small...