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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 ...
The trade in plastic waste has been identified as the main cause of marine litter. [a] Countries importing the waste plastics often lack the capacity to process all the material. As a result, the United Nations has restrictions on the trade of waste plastic trade unless it meets certain criteria. [b]
Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Recycling can reduce dependence on landfill , conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
BUSAN/BAKU (Reuters) -As delegates from 175 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea on Monday for the fifth round of talks aimed at securing an international treaty to curb plastic pollution ...
Story at a glance A new Greenpeace report finds just 5 percent of plastics are recycled. A big reason is the lack of capacity for recycling various plastics. Industry argues much more than 5 ...
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).
The industry of bottle and general plastic recycling utilizes audits as a way of ensuring practices are sustainable and that integrity for worker safety and health is upheld. In some countries, like Pakistan, Cleaner Production Assessments (CPs) exist. [16] CPs analyze the activity taking place and assign a certain risk type to the process.
Plastics accounts for 80% of waste dispersed in the marine and coastal environment of the Mediterranean Sea. [24] Recent studies focus on the types of plastics found and primarily on the issue of microplastics, both at a global but also at a regional level, as in the case of the Mediterranean Sea, which was identified as a "target hotspot of the world" due to its amounts of microplastics ...