Half of all plastics *ever* manufactured have been made in the last 15 years.
Production increased exponentially, from 2 million tons of plastics in 1950 to 448 million tons by 2015.
Production is expected to *double* by 2050.
Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic waste escapes into the oceans from coastal nations.
INFO SOURCE — https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-plastic-pollution-crisis-explained/
GRAPHIC SOURCE — https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-problem-with-plastics-and-recycling-bioplastics-microplastics-ocean-waste/
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