The inverted U-shaped relationship between the per capita income and the environmental quality known as Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) has been analysed and debated by a large number of economists in the 1990's. Various environmental quality in terms of Nox, Sox etc. have been demonstrated to...

Plastics convey enormous benefits to humankind, but current patterns of plastic production, use, and disposal with little attention to sustainable design and a near absence of recovery, reuse, and recycling are responsible for grave harms to health, great economic costs, and deep societal...