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25. Apr. 2023 · What is being done about plastic pollution? In 2022, UN Member States agreed on a resolution to end plastic pollution. An Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee is developing a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, with the aim of having it finalized by the end of 2024.
19. Okt. 2023 · How Did this Happen? Plastics made from fossil fuels are just over a century old. Production and development of thousands of new plastic products accelerated after World War II to the extent that life without plastics would be unimaginable today.
27. Juli 2022 · Much of the world’s plastic waste – from large items down to barely visible microplastic particles – ends up in the ocean, where it can persist for hundreds of years. Here it has negative effects on marine life of all kinds, and ultimately causes harm to humans too.
Alamy. Most discarded plastic waste is still with us - entombed in landfills or polluting the environment (Credit: Alamy) Plastic has seeped into every aspect of our existence. Can we live...
Over the next 70 years, however, annual production of plastics has increased nearly 230-fold to 460 million tonnes in 2019. Even just in the last two decades, global plastic production has doubled. Explore Data on Plastic Pollution. Chart 1 of 54. Endnotes.
Cumulative global plastic waste in a business as usual scenario will reach 3.2 billion tons by 2050. Image: University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Santa Barbara. This aim of zeroing out plastic pollution by 2040 is to the plastic crisis as ambitious as what the 2ºC Paris Agreement goal has been to the climate crisis.
29. Apr. 2024 · Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic – to reduce it by 40% in 15 years – in an attempt to protect human health and the environment. As ...
