**With Up Conférences.**  
8th april 2019  
Paris, France  
"How to make plastic circular?"



 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 





9 billion tons of plastic accumulated since 1950,  
 only 9% of plastic is recycled,  
 150 million tonnes of plastic waste in the oceans,  
 100% of the Mediterranean Sea polluted by plastics...

 





 

 

 

 





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Once perceived as a symbol of modernity, plastics have been the subject of a rapid and profound global challenge in recent years, particularly because of ocean pollution.

## The speakers:

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> [Read the Veolia Institute Review about "Reinventing plastics"](https://www.institut.veolia.org/en/nos-publications/la-revue-de-linstitut-facts-reports/reinventing-plastics)



 

 

 



 

 

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