(WW) – Ever since industrial-scale mass production of plastics began in the 1950s, around 8.3bn tonnes of primary plastics have been produced worldwide to date. Half of the total alone was manufactured in the last 13 years. As of 2015, around 6.3bn tonnes out of the 8.3bn tonnes produced have been discarded as ...
Only 9 per cent of plastics produced to date were recycled
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