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Figure 5.
Data Collection of Knowledge Gaps
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
UPSTREAM
MIDSTREAM
(Country policies)
Product design
Circular Economy
A material/product model that
reduces natural resource depletion design and recovery of
material/product maximizes the life of
their materials
Life Cycle of Plastic
Extraction, chemical design, product
manufacturing, distribution,
consumption, end-of-life waste
management.
Labeling
Recycling capacity
Recovery incentives
Stakeholder
responsibility
(e.g., EPR, recycling targets)
DOWNSTREAM
Misunderstanding
of types of plastic
Upcycling, Recycling,
Rejection: understanding
recycling and best practices
Understanding the importance
of recovery post-recycling
Stakeholder differentiation roles and responsibilities
Systems approach to solutions
(system archetypes: limits to growth,
escalation, fixes that fail)
LCA of materials
and products
Lifecycle drivers
Safe and unsafe plastic
waste processing
Waste Management
Process
Recycling incentives,
PCR mandates
Flow of Plastic
Disclosure of plastic types
imported/exported
Misunderstanding
of types of plastic
Post-recycled material
market incentive
Understanding of waste
flow waste vs market
economy for PCR material
Labeling
Misunderstanding
of types of plastic
Import & export of waste &
materials
Problematic Plastics
Chemical additives, polymer type
Systems Approach
System-approach
solution incentives
Recycling capacity
Interconnection - nature
and human designed
systems and connections
Systems-approach solutions
(system archetypes: limits to growth,
escalation, fixes that fail)
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