Anew study by the environmental research group Trucost, London, commissioned by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), Washington, D.C., finds that the environmental cost of using plastics in consumer goods and packaging is nearly four times less than it would be if plastics were replaced with alternative materials. The Trucost study based its findings on natural capital accounting methods, which measure and value environmental impacts such as consumption of natural water and emissions to air, land and water, which are not typically factored into traditional financial accounting.
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