Is there an empirical environmental Kuznets curve relationship between mismanaged plastic waste per capita and income per capita? A caveat

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Author	Uehara, Takuro Cordier, Mateo
Copyright Year	2019
Abstract	13 A study by Barnes (2019) concluded that there exists an empirical environmental Kuznets curve 14 (EKC) relationship between mismanaged plastic waste per capita and income per capita. 15 However, this result needs careful interpretation. The study adopted data that used the World 16 Bank database to compute mismanaged plastic waste amounts. Because data to compute them 17 were not available for all countries, missing data were estimated by relating them to economic 18 classification (i.e., income level). In other words, the data used for the analysis by Barnes simply 19 assumed—without scientific validation—that mismanaged plastic waste amounts are related to 20 economic classification (i.e., income level). 21
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