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U.S. plastics manufacturing presents prospects for global emissions reductions – 17 May 2022
May 17, 2022
Discussions on the environmental impacts of plastics must consider two important facts about GHG emissions: plastics often have a lower emissions profile than current alternative materials and the use of ethane in the United States to produce plastics emits relatively fewer emissions than naphtha-based production in China or elsewhere
Attempts to curb plastic production in the United States on the basis of reducing emissions would ultimately have a paradoxical effect of increasing emissions globally through a larger share of plastics produced in China using naphtha as a feedstock
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