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1950: DuPont begin the manufacture of polyester. 1951: J. Paul Hogan and Robert L. Banks from Phillips polymerized propylene for the first time to produce polypropylene: 1953: Polycarbonate independently developed by Hermann Schnell at Bayer and Daniel Fox at General Electric: 1954: Polypropylene was discovered by Giulio Natta with production ...
Global Plastic Production (1950-2022) [2] Plastics production has been growing globally. ... World plastics production in Mt year Megatonnes; 2002: 204 2007: 257 2009 ...
According to co-author Patricia Villarubia-Gómez from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, "There has been a 50-fold increase in the production of chemicals since 1950. This is projected to triple again by 2050". There are at least 350,000 artificial chemicals in the world. They have mostly "negative effects on planetary health". Plastic alone ...
Millions of tons of plastic end up in Earth’s water bodies every year, and less than 10 percent of the world’s annual plastic production is recycled, according to the World Health Organization ...
Over 100 nations, including small islands, African nations and several European and developing countries like Norway and Mexico, back a proposal to set a global target for reducing plastic production.
After World War I, improvements in chemistry led to an explosion of new forms of plastics, with mass production beginning in the 1940s and 1950s. [56] Among the earliest examples in the wave of new polymers were polystyrene (first produced by BASF in the 1930s) [ 4 ] and polyvinyl chloride (first created in 1872 but commercially produced in the ...
Since 99% of all plastics are made from fossil fuels, Cirino says, only serious caps on plastic production, coupled with far more stringent regulation of the plastic and fossil fuel industries, is ...
Although plastics were discovered before the 20th century, large-scale production was not realised until World War II. Nylon replaced silk in parachutes, while Perspex was a light-weight alternative to glass in aeroplanes. After the war these materials were commercialized. The plastic age began around 1950, part of the post-war economic boom.