CURIOSITIES

OF THE USE
OF PLASTIC
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There are already more
than 5 billion plastic
fragments floating in our
oceans.
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•Worldwide, 73 percent of beach litter is plastic: cigarette butt filters, bottles,
stoppers, wrappers, shopping bags, and Styrofoam containers.
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•World production of plastics has
increased exponentially from 2.3
million tons in 1950 to 162 million
in 1993 and to 448 million in
2015. ...
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• By 2050, almost every species of seabird on the planet will eat plastic.
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In 2015, more than 6,900 tons of plastic waste
had been generated. Almost 9 percent of it was
recycled, 12 percent was incinerated, and 79
percent was collected in landfills or in the
environment.
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Nearly a million plastic beverage
containers are sold worldwide every
minute.
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•Estimates of how long plastic lasts
range from 450 years to forever. In
breaking down
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•The biggest market for plastics is
packaging materials. These wastes
account for almost half of all plastic
garbage generated worldwide; most
are never recycled or incinerated.
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•So far, some 700 species of marine animals have been reported to have
eaten or become trapped in plastic.
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More than 40 percent of the
plastic is used once and
thrown away.