Plastic pollution: Chemical recycling could provide a solution
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 - 08:30
in Earth & Climate
The world is drowning in plastic. About 60% of the more than 8,700 million metric tonnes of plastic ever made is no longer in use, instead sat mostly in landfill or released to the environment. That equals over 400kg of plastic waste for every one of the 7.6 billion people on the planet.