Plastic pollution attaching the source

By Bénédicte Garbil,Senior Vice-President of Institutional Affairsand Sustainable Development, CARBIOS Download article Water, an essential common good, is a key concern in this era of environmental transition.Protecting water resources means implementing sustainable development based not only on a more rational use of water but also on preserving its quality. Alas, we all have images in our mind of plastic waste floating in the oceans and clogging up river banks. We know the harmful consequences of this for biodiversity and for the quality of water and are nowbeginning to discover the impact on health. This is not only an environmental but also an economic issue: a 2021 report by the UnitedNations evaluated the impact of marine pollution linked to plastic waste at between$6 and $19 million. Now that Europe is committing to a more sustainable approach to water management, weneed to reconsider our practices, our policies and our technologies; given the