Companies are on board with reporting their carbon usage, but what about the amount of plastic they produce? It's a different sort of problem than carbon emissions, but although the negative impacts of humanity's plastic habit have been known for years, the amount being used is only increasing.
This fall, the Hong Kong-based Ocean Recovery Alliance (ORA) is moving forward with its Plastic Disclosure Project, which will ask companies to calculate and disclose their "plastic footprints," just as they report their carbon footprints. The ultimate goal is decreasing the amount that gets into the oceans and messes with marine environments, but the first step, the ORA argues, is figuring how much we're producing and looking for ways to start drawing that amount down.
