Earth vs. Plastics: A Multi-Stakeholder Strategy for Environmental Cleanup
What Does the Facts Say nbsp The world produces around million tonnes of plastic waste every year Approximately is burned and less than is recycled while the remaining accumulates in landfills chokes our water bodies and ends up in the oceans Plastics take more than years to degrade which means the menace created due to unsustainable production and consumption practices is here to stay on this planet for a very long time Life cycle assessment of plastic reveals that petroleum-based plastics can be recycled three to four times mdash with product quality deteriorating with each cycle mdash finally finding its way to landfills Rapid growth in global plastic production didn rsquo t happen until the s In the next years annual production of plastics increased nearly -fold to million tonnes by In the World Economic Forum had estimated that plastic production could triple by if the businesses continue as usual