We Earthlings: 91% of All Plastic Is Still Unrecycled

Earth911
Mar 3, 2020, 4:50 am216 pts
Ninety-one percent of all plastic ever manufactured is still unrecycled. And how much have we manufactured? During the six decades that humans have been mass producing plastic, we’ve created 8.3 billion tons of it. That number grows daily. We didn’t plan ahead for the proper disposal of plastic and now we…

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