POLYMATERIA

Polymateria is engineering cost-effective solutions to the global problem of plastic pollution.

The scale and visible nature of the plastic pollution problem has captured grassroots imagination like no other environmental issue.

Fugitive plastics

If current trends continue, from 2016 to 2050, there will be 7.2 billion tonnes of total plastic packing waste generated, of which 2.1 billion tonnes will end up in the natural environment. 1.6 billion tonnes of this will remain on land and 0.5 billion tonnes will find its way into the marine environment.

Reducing the amount of plastic that would end up in the marine environment alone would cost USD c 1.6 trillion.