Anna is a member of the waste group and has worked for IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute for five years. Anna works broadly with waste on a systems level, but has a particular focus in plastic waste collection and recycling, WEEE and C&D waste flows as well as waste statistics. Lately, Anna has put more and more attention to marine plastic litter, for example by taking part in a study mapping sources and pathways of Swedish microplastics to the marine environment on behalf of the Swedish EPA.

Two sides of the same coin

It is literally unavoidable to use plastics in our daily lives. The computer and the mobile phone, the equipment I use the most in my…