China's plastic production stands out among world regions In , the global production of plastics reached million metric tons, with China is one of the largest producers of plastics in the world, accounting for more than one quarter of the global production. Plastic imports into the United States are steadily increasing, with China being the top supplier. China's plastic exports have grown considerably in the past decade, with an export value of You need a Single Account for unlimited access.
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Explore sustainability. Knowledge hub. Members area Join Search. Open main menu. Who we are. Case studies. Pellet loss prevention. How much plastic is in the sea? And how much is actually recycled? These are all questions to which the answers are not so easy to give. Slowly but surely, the answers are trickling in from the hundreds of scientists around the world who are trying to get a handle on both the extent and the consequences of the problem.
We have made a selection from the scientific research we consider reliable. The sources used are listed. The amount of plastic that is produced in the world every year has increased explosively in just a human lifetime. These are the figures from the plastics industry itself, but they do not include synthetic fibres so the real production is a lot higher. More than half the total amount of plastic produced was only brought to market after This is at least the case in Europe, so presumably this is the case for the rest of the world too.
So this is where the most environmental gains can be made if we want to reduce our plastic consumption. In the second and third places are the construction and the automotive industries respectively.
Between the s and , an estimated 9. Year after year we saddle the earth with about million tons of plastic waste. So on average, every person in Europe adds 33 kilos of plastic packaging to the mountain of plastic waste every year. These figures are often a lot higher in other regions of the world. According to research in , the Americans are the biggest plastic polluters.
On World Cleanup Day we always ask the people who clean up to note the litter they find and record the type of waste and the brand. So in the Netherlands, we know that Red Bull has been at number 1 for years.
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