Unless immediate action is taken by governments and industry, annual flows of plastic into the ocean could nearly triple by 2040, a new report has warned. Breaking the Plastic Wave: A Comprehensive Assessment of Pathways Toward Stopping Ocean Plastic Pollution, by The Pew Charitable Trusts, in partnership with Systemic, criticised the lack of a coherent global strategy to solve the crisis. It said plastic pollution was the by-product of fundamental flaws in a 'linear plastic system' in which 95 per cent of aggregate plastic packaging value -between $80-120bn a year - is lost to the economy following a short first-use cycle. Without major action, 50kg of plastic would enter the ocean for every metre of shoreline by 2040, the report said. But the authors say a future with around 80 per cent less annual plastic leakage into the ocean, relative to business as usual, was achievable by 2040 using existing technologies. This would benefit communities, governments and industry, but achieving it would depend on the immediate, ambitious and concerted global implementation of solutions across the entire plastics value chain. Dame Ellen MacArthur, founder and chair of trustees of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, said: "We must eliminate the plastics we don't need, and drastically reduce virgin plastic use. We need to innovate to create new materials and business models based on reuse and refill systems. And we need improved infrastructure to ensure all plastics we use are circulated in the economy and never become waste pollution.'
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机译：除非政府和行业采取立即采取行动，除非政府和行业采取措施，否则塑料塑料的每年可能会在2040年到2040年，一份新报告警告。突破塑料波：通过对慈善信托的慈善信托，与系统性的合作关系，综合评估阻止海洋塑料污染，批评缺乏一致的全球战略来解决危机。它所述塑料污染是“线性塑料系统”中基本缺陷的副产品，其中95％的聚集塑料包装价值每年80-120亿美元 - 在短期使用循环之后损失经济。报告称，没有重大行动，50kg塑料将在2040年到2040年进入海洋每米海岸。但是，由于2040年，可以使用现有技术将在2040年可实现约80％的年度塑料泄漏到海洋中少80％的未来。这将使社区，政府和行业受益，但实现这一目标取决于整个塑料价值链的立即，雄心勃勃和全球解决方案。 Dame Ellen Macarthur，Ellen Macarthur基金会受托人的创始人和主席说：“我们必须消除我们不需要的塑料，并大大减少了处女用途。我们需要创新以创建基于重用的新材料和商业模式并再填充系统。我们需要改进的基础设施，以确保我们使用的所有塑料在经济中流传，永远不会成为废物污染。
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