World-wide Plastic Pollution Seems Likely to Increase

In spite of the increased UK enthusiasm for limiting the pollution caused by plastics of the world's seas and beaches, the prospects for a cleaner environment appear extremely poor (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/02/year-plastic-pollution-clean-beaches-seas). In many parts of the world, there appears to be little that people can do to recycle these hardy and ubiquitous materials. It is also pointed out that the US boom of fracking has made ethylene much more easily available (and this is a building block for many plastics). In deed, it is predicted that plastics production will increase at least into the 2030s.