About 30 million tons of plastic waste --or 10% of the world's annual plastic production-- reaches the oceans each year, most from developing coastal countries. We study novel business models of organizations with a triple bottom line (TBL) objective that is a weighted sum of profit, and...

Plastic pollution threatens global social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Plastic production use and disposal, particularly single-use plastic packaging, has grown 20-fold in the past 50 years. Many single-use plastic items are difficult to recycle or can only be recycled a few...