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THE
FUTURE OF
PLASTIC
Daren Smith- calling for change but speaking up for plastic.
SABIC chief speaks out on the need for change
David Attenborough’ s inspiring television documentary, Blue Planet II, has brought the issue of plastic marine litter to the forefront of the public conscience. But is the solution to the problem really striving for plastic-free communities?
SABIC chief Daren Smith believes that the use and application of plastic provides great benefits to society and the quality of our everyday lives. There is, however, a plastic waste problem that together we need to solve.
Research and media coverage has removed any lingering doubt of the damage that irresponsibly discarded waste plastic can cause.
And yet the modern world, as we know it today, would simply not exist without plastics. The sector is huge and complex and it would be naïve to tar all plastics with the same brush.
Global giant SABIC, whose UK operations are headquartered on Teesside, manufactures chemicals that form the building blocks for a range of plastic products that we all use in everyday life.