The Plastic Waste Conundrum Bunting Redditch The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more Much of that waste — equivalent According to the American Medical Association (AMA) Journal of Ethics, United States healthcare facilities produce approximately 3,500 tons of plastic waste every day, 91% of which will never be
The Plastic Waste Conundrum Bunting Redditch Promoting recycling as a cure-all for plastic waste can actually lead to more of it becoming trash, experts warn Now, the state of California wants to hold industry accountable for the plastic And it's not going away any time soon Even if everyone on the planet began switching over to greener alternatives tomorrow, the plastic waste we generate today will take generations to break down This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and CBS News Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste Around 15 billion people around the world do not have access to garbage collection services, and how they dispose of their plastic waste has become a serious environmental problem Most of these
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