Our relationship with plastic is toxic; the UN wants to end it

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
2 min readMay 17

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IMAGE: An empty plastic Coca Cola bottle washed up on a beach
IMAGE: Maria Mendiola — Unsplash

The United Nations is considering a global agreement to eliminate plastic pollution by 2030. A huge problem with few easy answers, and that cannot start with the total elimination of the manufacture of plastics. Instead, the idea is to work on suitable substitutes for the functions of a technology that has shaped our world, in addition to abandoning the idea that plastics can be…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)