The Problem with Plastics & Recycling

Why plastic recycling doesn’t work 🙁

Source: “Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made” Geyer et al., Sci Adv, 2017 (data)

n.b. These numbers are from 2017. Humanity produces approx. 345 million tonnes of plastic a year. That means another ~1.7 billion tonnes since this study was released.

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» Plastic Recycling A Myth (Phys.org)
» How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled (NPR)
» Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work, Will Never Work (The Atlantic)

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