Unstoppable global plasticization

It is estimated that over three hundred and fifty million tons of plastic are thrown into the waste every year, less than a tenth is recycled and over a fifth end up in the environment damaging the health of humans and all kinds of living creatures. At an international conference in South Korea in Busan the issue was discussed, but apparently no solutions are found to a problem that according to forecasts will only worsen in the coming years, since the demand for plastic remains very high: recycling does not work or works very little; in fact, from two hundred and thirty tons in the year 2000 it has gone to four hundred and sixty in 2019, then in practice ninety-one percent of this plastic ended up in landfills, burned or disposed of directly in the environment. On an interconnected planet plastic sooner or later ends up in the food chain and is breathed in as microplastic.

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