PAAR: Ensuring Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns

Ever heard about the UNs Sustainable Development Goals?    If you are lucky enough to still be on holidays, take an hour or so, and visit the UN SDG website ... they have developed a large amount of content ... synthesised to suit the time poor and those of us who want all the science, facts and detail.

In this short post, I just wanted to draw upon SDG 12 to help explain the connection between the Plastics As A Resource framework, and one of the 17 United Nations Sustainability Goals.   The infographic to the right paints a pretty clear picture that we are currently living beyond our means ... consuming more than is sustainable.   It is on this basis that we really believe that the days of an open loop supply chain for plastics must end.

Certainly, we fully support the migration from plastic to alternate, biogradable alternates, but it is the fact that developing countries require 5 times more natural resource for the same economic output that concerns us.   Without the sophisticated infrastructure, developing nations are typically last to benefit from new technologies (they don't have the means to fund the change), and they suffer from a 'plastic debt' that continues to grow.   These nations need our help, and the best way to do this is to establish a circular supply chain for plastic ... there is no waste only resource.  

At PAAR, our first priorities are to provide the infrastructure developing nations need produce high value goods from an abundant and free resource.