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Making plastic industry sustainable is corporate self-interest

November 10, 2021
GZERO Staff
In the Long Run, Making Plastic Industry Sustainable Is Corporate Self-interest | GZERO Media

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Plastics are essential for Asia, but for Ian Bremmer the way the industry works right now is incompatible with the region's targets to fight climate change. Very soon, though, he predicts there will be "immense gravitational pull" to do things differently. Once the way Asian companies use plastics now becomes outdated, he says, it's only a matter of time before they change out of their own self-interest. Bremmer spoke during the second of a two-part Sustainability Leaders Summit livestream conversation sponsored by Suntory.

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