Opinion: The plastic pollution crisis is a market-design problem

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Despite growing awareness of plastic pollution, UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen says investment continues to flow disproportionately towards downstream solutions, while prevention, reuse and redesign remain underfunded. She calls for stronger policies and blended finance to unlock capital for upstream circular solutions.

• The remarks resonate in Africa, where significant gaps in financing and infrastructure continue to constrain efforts to combat plastic pollution, even as the continent's plastic waste burden is projected to more than double by 2060. 

• Ms Andersen made the remarks during a side event on mobilising capital for the transition to a circular economy, held alongside the Plastic Reboot programme in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on June 4.

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