More than 9 billion tons of plastic has been produced since 1950, and the vast majority of it is still around.
A new study that tracked the global manufacture and distribution of plastics since they became widespread after World War II found that only two billion tons of that plastic is still in use. Seven billion tons is stuck on Earth as garbage in landfills or littering the environment, including deep oceans, where it's been discovered in the mouths of whales and the bellies of dead seabirds that mistook it for food.
| |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | Environment Alert | Wed., Jul. 19, 2017 2:01 p.m. | | | | | | There's literally a ton of plastic garbage for every person in the world | More than 9 billion tons of plastic has been produced since 1950, and the vast majority of it is still around.
A new study that tracked the global manufacture and distribution of plastics since they became widespread after World War II found that only two billion tons of that plastic is still in use. Seven billion tons is stuck on Earth as garbage in landfills or littering the environment, including deep oceans, where it's been discovered in the mouths of whales and the bellies of dead seabirds that mistook it for food. | | Read more » | | | |
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