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12 largest producers of plastic waste (+EU) and their recycling rates in 2010 Country Plastic waste per year (Mt) [47] Waste per person per day (Kg) [47] Recycled Incinerated (with energy recovery) Landfill (and incineration without energy recovery) Comments China: 59.08: 0.12---No official statistics United States [48] 37.83: 0.34: 8%: 14%: 78 ...
By the September 2008 saw the American price of $235 per ton, which had fallen to just $120 per ton, [19] and in the January 2009, the UK's fell six weeks from about £70.00 per ton, to only £10.00 per ton. [22]
An estimated 52 million metric tons of global plastic waste emissions are produced every year, a new study by the University of Leeds has found. The study, using artificial intelligence to model ...
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 ...
From the start of plastic production through to 2015, the world produced around 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste, only 9% of which has been recycled and only ~1% has been recycled more than once. [28] Of the remaining waste, 12% was incinerated and 79% was either sent to landfills or lost to the environment as pollution. [28]
Typically, recyclers in the U.S. can expect aluminum can prices to hover around $0.56, on average, per pound of cans. ... Tin scrap in the U.S. generally goes for $110 per ton on today's open ...
By contributing to the development of chronic disease and death, a group of hormone-disruptive plastic chemicals is costing the US health care system billions — over $249 billion in 2018 alone ...
Packaging waste is a dominant contributor in today's world and responsible for half of the waste in the globe. [4] The recycling rate in 2015 for containers and packaging was 53 percent. Furthermore, the process of burning of containers and packaging was 7.2 million tons (21.4 percent of total combustion with energy recovery).