Why Do We Find It So Hard to Stop Using Plastic Bottles

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

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1.5 EARTH AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, Climatic research, Oceanography

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RTE Brainstorm, Updated / Tuesday, 6 Aug 2019 12:45

Abstract

Ireland once paved the way for change when we cut our use of plastic bags drastically with the introduction of a plastic bag levy. But nearly two decades later, we are the top producer of plastic waste in Europe, generating an average of 61kg per person a year. It's not the sort of top 10 list you want to find yourself on, yet here we are, plastic bag-free, or not.

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https://doi.or/10.21427/5x4j-r131

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