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The United States is the world leader in generating plastic waste, producing an annual 42 million metric tons of plastic waste. [59] [60] Per capita generation of plastic waste in the United States is higher than in any other country, with the average American producing 130.09 kilograms of plastic waste per year. Other high-income countries ...
Plastic mismanagement is both a combination of cheap supply by all kinds of manufacturers, for example by providing much needed access to water through bottled water and water sachets, and poor management of the waste after use. [58] Some locations in Africa have also been the sourcing of dumping plastic waste from the Global North. [58]
Water sachets are cheaper to produce than plastic bottles, and easier to transport. [2] In some countries, water vendors refer to sachet water as "pure water". [3] [4] [5] High demand, and poor collection of waste from consumers, has resulted in significant plastic pollution and waste from sachets throughout the West Africa.
One of the most plastic-emitting rivers in the world, contributing around two percent of global plastic pollution emissions into oceans annually. [168] Highly polluted with untreated sewage, industrial waste, tons of sediment (garbage) and blackwater from Guatemala City carried by the Río Las Vacas tributary. [169]
Both are common in plastic water bottles. [7] The climate change conference COP26 held an official side event focused on raising awareness of the open burning of waste. [8] In September 2022, an agreement was reached on reducing open waste burning in Africa at the 18th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN).
Trashy Bags Africa is a commercial venture in Accra, Ghana, which turns plastic waste into reusable shopping bags, fashion accessories, school supplies, and other products. [ 1 ] The company employs about forty Ghanaian workers [ 2 ] [ 3 ] to collect, clean and stitch plastic trash in the form of sachets that contained water and other beverages.
The waste-to-energy power station will, in the first phase, convert 200 tonnes of plastic waste everyday into "3,500 liters (770 imp gal; 925 U.S. gal) of industrial lubricants, 15,000 liters (3,300 imp gal; 3,963 U.S. gal) of diesel fuel, and three metric tonnes of char (solid carbon)" on a daily basis. In addition, it will in the process ...
Lorna Rutto (born 1984) [1] is a Kenyan ecopreneur, and founder of Ecopost, [2] a social enterprise that manufactures fencing posts and other products from recycled plastic waste in offering sustainable jobs to people in marginalized communities and solutions to Kenya's plastic waste challenge.