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Ronald Steenblik
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Retired OECD staff member. I post on trade, environment, & energy, especially fossil fuel subsidies. Supporting QUNO's work on identifying & reigning in subsidies to plastics. Once told by Mel Brooks: "You have no taste!" Comments r in my personal capacity
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Nice podcast. Congratulations! I’d be curious to know which figures Sarah Perreard and colleagues use regarding “treatment” capacity: input or output? I learned only recently that the numbers on share of #plastic waste that is recycled represents the share that is DELIVERED to recycling centres, …

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… not the share actually recycled, which can be 1/3 to 1/2 less. That which isn’t recycled often gets landfilled or incinerated, or in some developing countries dumped. Using an output-based ratio would move Overshoot Day earlier in the calendar.

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Ronald Steenblik
@ronsteenblik.bsky.social
Retired OECD staff member. I post on trade, environment, & energy, especially fossil fuel subsidies. Supporting QUNO's work on identifying & reigning in subsidies to plastics. Once told by Mel Brooks: "You have no taste!" Comments r in my personal capacity
552 followers374 following1.2k posts
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