We now understand what we have to do—to eliminate plastic pollution, to reduce emissions—and universities are really the institutions to help us in the private sector to accomplish that.
Regulation is a powerful driver of innovation. For every company that is arguing against environmental change that is being echoed in legislation, there are market leaders who welcome the fact that they are being required to innovate in order to design out these problems.
No single sector, no single organisation can tackle systemic challenges alone. Only when looking at things through this systemic lens can we really tackle the sticky issue of plastic waste and pollution