Friday, July 21, 2017

We've made enough plastic trash to bury Manhattan under 2-miles of the stuff

  Whether one is getting an iced latte to-go in the morning, received their restaurant leftovers in a plastic takeaway container, or forgot to take their reusable bags to the store, there are numerous ways one can obtain disposable plastic — and that is a problem. According to the first global analysis of the production of plastics, humans now produce more plastic than anything else and, as a result, have created 8.3 billion tonnes (9.bn tons) of the stuff since the 1950’s. If the trend...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building http://inhabitat.com/weve-made-enough-plastic-trash-to-bury-manhattan-under-2-miles-of-the-stuff
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