The environmental impact of the combined 139M tons of plastic pollution in oceans and rivers is well known, but what about the economic cost?
Around 80% of the 6 trillion cigarettes produced annually are littered, and many of those end up in oceans, adding to the plastic problem.
Plastic waste can now be found everywhere on Earth, from the highest peaks to the deepest seas, but what is the most littered item in the...
By 2050, about 37% of all the world’s plastic waste is expected to end up in our landfills or in the natural environment.
Today's stunning visualization depicts the incredible scale of plastic bottle waste accumulated globally in each hour, day, month, year, and decade.
