Plastic Crisis in the Oceans - BillerudKorsnäs contributes to finding solutions to marine plastic pollution

BillerudKorsnäs, the leading Swedish provider of renewable packaging materials and solutions, has launched a partnership with the French scientific research foundation Tara Expeditions. The partnership will concern scientific research on the consequences of plastic littering in the oceans.Eight million tonnes of plastic waste are deposited into the sea each year. This corresponds to 16 plastic bags per meter of the world’s total coast lines. These findings were recently published in the journal Science. There is, however, still very little research that shows how all this plastic affects