While plastics are extremely useful materials for modern society, plastics production and waste generation continue to increase with worsening environmental impacts despite international, national and local policy responses, as well as industry commitments. The first of two reports, this Outlook intends to inform and support policy efforts to combat plastic leakage.
This technical document presents a novel approach to modelling and projecting plastic use and waste, relying on the OECD ENV-Linkages computable general equilibrium model. This report also highlights the contribution of the approach to the existing literature on plastics projections and compares the results of ENV-Linkages with those from other studies. This modelling approach was used for the publication of the OECD Global Plastic Outlook (2022).
