A Billion More Tons of Plastic Could Blanket Earth by 2040

Often the environment, unfortunately. The modeling found that currently each year, 30 million metric tons of plastic is dumped on land. Almost 50 million metric tons are burned out in the open. Another 11 million metric tons flow into the sea. According to the model, by 2040, those figures could be all the more startling: […]

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