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Plastics Pollution Has Become a ‘Crisis,’ Biden Administration Acknowledges
The White House strategy aims to cut pollutants, not cap production, and use government purchasing power to discourage single-use plastic.
By Marianne Lavelle
Single-use plastic would be phased out of all U.S. government operations by 2035 under a new federal plastics pollution strategy unveiled Friday by President Joe Biden’s administration, which cited a “crisis” of littered oceans and poisoned air due to plastics.
Related Knowledge Center: Carbon capture
State of Play
The federal government is investing heavily in the development of carbon capture and storage (or sequestration), which offers the enticing prospect of preventing carbon dioxide emissions produced during combustion from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change. But the technologies involved, while proven, remain expensive, an obstacle to widespread adoption.