4. What does the future hold for plastics?

The production and management of plastic waste by our modern societies will be a crucial environmental challenge for years and decades to come. Faced with this global problem, there can be no single solution. Indeed, it seems utopian to envisage cleaning up all the world's natural environments of plastic waste [BIO 9 300] . Soil remediation or decontamination mainly involves making the soil and subsoil of an area suitable for a new industrial or residential use, or even in extreme cases suitable for a return to nature or agricultural use, after it has been polluted by an activity,...