Global plastic production and usage is estimated to rise in the coming decades . Without significant interventions across multiple stages of the plastic life cycle, an increase in plastic pollution will likely coincide with this trend . In its 2021 report , one of six key interventions identified by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for mitigating the potential impacts of plastic-associated pollution was redesigning plastic products by embracing the principles of green chemistry and engineering . Following these principles, new designs should inherently have reduced environmental impacts rather than rely on external systems to manage potential harm. These principles can be achieved by minimizing the amount of material used to make the product and ensuring its degradability in all environments (e.g., wastewater, freshwater, seawater, soil, compost, and landfill) .