A deep dive into biodiversity and plastic packaging

This page is part of The Nature Imperative: How the circular economy tackles biodiversity loss paper, where we delve deeper into the fundamental contribution the circular economycircular economyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature. can make to halting and reversing biodiversity loss. Explore more insights by browsing the full paper.

Tackling plastic pollution through elimination, innovation, and circulation

Currently, most plastic packaging flows through a wasteful linear system that threatens biodiversity by polluting natural habitats, endangering wildlife, and contributing to climate change. The circular economy offers a comprehensive system-level approach to transform the way we produce and use packaging so that plastic packaging is kept in circulation and never becomes waste or pollution.

By eliminating all the plastic items we don’t need, innovating to ensure the plastics we do need are reusable, recyclable or compostable, and circulating all the plastic we use to keep it in the economy and out of the environment, the impacts on biodiversity can be reduced.