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An estimated 300 million plastic bags every year end up in the Atlantic Ocean alone. All that plastic ending up in oceans is not without consequences. By 2050, the world's oceans could contain more plastic than fish measured by weight.
7 lis 2023 · In 2021, each person living in the EU consumed on average 77 lightweight plastic carrier bags (LPCBs), which is 11 bags less per person, compared with 2020. Overall, 34.2 billion (bn) lightweight plastic carrier bags were consumed in the EU in 2021 (-4.8 bn bags compared with 2020).
5 wrz 2024 · In 2021, reported consumption for individual countries ranged from 5 LPCBs per capita in Belgium to 271 in Lithuania, with the latter driven by high consumption of very lightweight plastic carrier bags (i.e. bags with a wall thickness below 15 microns).
16 lis 2022 · In 2020, each person living in the EU used, on average, 87 lightweight plastic carrier bags (-6 bags per person compared with 2019). In total, this amounted to 39.0 billion (bn) lightweight plastic carrier bags (-0.4 bn bags compared with 2019).
2 wrz 2018 · By 2019, annual production had increased nearly 230-fold, reaching 460 million tonnes. Over the period from 1950 to 2019, cumulative production reached 9.5 billion tonnes of plastic — more than one tonne of plastic for every person alive today. In our entry we provide data visualisations and explainers on plastic waste by country, plastic ...
CLEANSWEEP volunteers in Massachusetts collected 5,712 pounds of plastic bags in one of their cleanup campaigns. It is one of the most common forms of litter. It is estimated that the world uses 500 billion to 1 trillion bags in a year.
An estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of plastic is destined for our environment - both on land and in the ocean - by 2040, unless worldwide action is taken. That's according to a global model of the...
