amount of plastic being produced worldwide annually
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How much plastic is produced per year? - Worldwide plastics production rose to 280 million tonnes in 2011, according to first rough estimates published by Plastics Europe. - This represents around 4% increase from 2010, when 270 million tonnes of plastics were produced. It also confirms the return of long term growth after the economic crisis.
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Aluminum can and plastic bottle recycling 1 Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. 2  However, the U.S.’s recycling rate for plastic is only 23 percent, which means 38 billion water bottles – more than $1 billion worth of plastic – are wasted each year 3.
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- 1500 is the number of plastic water bottles consumed in 1 second in the US! Here a few more shocking statistics from MSLK's Watershed installation: Out of the 50 billion bottles of water being bought each year, 80% end up in a landfill, even though recycling programs exist.
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Plastic now pollutes every corner of Earth Saturday 23 January 2016 19.05 EST. Humans have made enough plastic since the second world war to coat the Earth entirely in clingfilm, an international study has revealed. This ability to plaster the planet in plastic is alarming, say scientists – for it confirms that human activities are now having a pernicious impact on our world.
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Plastic recycling Since the vast majority of plastic is non-biodegradable, recycling is a part of global efforts to reduce plastic in the waste stream, especially the approximately eight million metric tonnes of waste plastic that enter the Earth's ocean every year. This helps to reduce the high rates of plastic pollution.
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Raising Awareness of Plastic Waste Here is why: About 300 million tons of plastic is produced globally each year. Only about 10 percent of that is recycled. Of the plastic that is simply trashed, an estimated seven million tons ends up in the sea each year. There, it breaks down into smaller and smaller fragments over the years.
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- Plastic Waste: More Dangerous than Global Warming. Plastic Waste: More Dangerous than Global Warming. Thursday, May 3, 2007 - 5:00pm. Plastic pollution is destroying the world's ocean ecosystems, but some companies are in a position to stop the devastation.
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Non-Compete Agreements China's 10% annual economic growth rate means that half of today's factories in China didn't even exist in 2005. In the past three years, smelly plastic from the People's Republic of China is now infiltrating markets all over the United States for a wide variety of products. See my list of some items, below.
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- We have only begun to see the far-reaching consequences of plastic pollution and how it affects all living things. According to a study from Plymouth University, plastic pollution affects at least 700 marine species, while some estimates suggest that at least 100 million marine mammals are killed each year from plastic pollution. Here are some of the marine species most deeply impacted by plastic pollution.
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- * It is estimated that 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks are used each year in China. (4) * Australians produce an estimated 140,000 tonnes of e-waste each year but only about 4% is recycled. (5) * Australia is one of the highest producers of waste per head of population in the world. In 1999, Australia ranked second, behind the USA, in terms of domestic waste generation. (6)
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Steel-strength plastics: Durable plastic may replace metals By 2020, the consumption of plastics is estimated to reach 200 million tons a year. Prof. Kol says that because traditional plastics aren't considered green, it's important to think creatively to develop this material, which has become a staple of daily life, with the least amount of harm to the environment.
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11 Facts About Recycling The average person generates over 4 pounds of trash every day and about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year. Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage each year, enough to fill Busch Stadium from top to bottom twice a day.
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- Use of Plastic Bags in Australia. Plastic bags have been around for 30 years now. It is estimated world wide that 1 trillion bags are used and discarded every year. Australians use 3.92 billion plastic bags a year, that's over 10 million new bags being used every day.
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11 Facts About Pollution Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into US water. While children make up 10% of the world’s population, over 40% of the global burden of disease falls on them. More than 3 million children under age five die annually from environmental factors.
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Bottled Water The sheer numbers are staggering: 1  Roughly 50 billion plastic water bottles end up in U.S. landfills each year — 140 million every day! 2  That’s enough, laid end to end, to reach China and back each day. 3  In 2008, Americans drank an average 215 bottles of water each for a total of 66 billion bottles.
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China, India, US Among Worldâs Worst Marine Polluters: Country-By-Country Breakdown Of Plastics In Oceans China, India, US Among World’s Worst Marine Polluters: Country-By-Country Breakdown Of Plastics In Oceans. China is dumping more plastics into the ocean than any other country and the rate of global plastic pollution is only expected to increase, according to a new study by engineers and environmental scientists.
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION Plastic pollution in our oceans is endangering marine life and ecosystems, so the Center for Biological Diversity is tackling the problem. In August 2012, the Center petitioned the EPA asking the government to regulate plastics as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act.
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China, India, US Among Worldâs Worst Marine Polluters: Country-By-Country Breakdown Of Plastics In Oceans The team also broke down the plastic waste generated by people from 192 countries who were living within 30 miles of a coast. Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka rank among the top five polluters along with China. The United States ranks twentieth from the top. The top 20 countries ranked by mass of mismanaged plastic waste in 2010 and 2025.
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- Current global MSW generation levels are approximately 1.3 billion tonnes per year, and are expected to increase to approximately 2.2 billion tonnes per year by 2025. This represents a signif-icant increase in per capita waste generation rates, from 1.2 to 1.42 kg per person per day in the next fifteen years.However, global averages are broad estimates only as rates vary considerably by region, country, city, and even within cities.urrent global MSW generation levels are approximately 1.3 billion tonnes per year, and are expected to increase to approximately 2.2 billion tonnes per year by 2025. This represents a signif-icant increase in per capita waste generation rates, from 1.2 to 1.42 kg per person per day in the next fifteen years.
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- Compostable Plastic. World Centric® compostable plastics are made from Ingeo™, a bio-based plastic derived from renewable corn in the U.S. Chemically, this material is known as PLA, or Poly Lactic Acid, which can be derived from a variety of plant-based starches.
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How to set Slideshow to every 10 seconds and enable shuffle in Windows 10 Yesterday, I shared with you how to enable the wallpaper Slideshow feature in Windows 10 and how to get it to work when on your laptop battery. The Slideshow option is not a new feature as it has been in previous versions of Windows.In fact, some users noticed you cannot set your Slideshow faster than once a minute.. Yesterday, I demonstrated how you can dig deep into your power settings to make Slideshow run on a battery. Microsoft disables this by default as it could potentially be a small battery drain depending if you set it for every 10 seconds, for example. Turns out, you can enable or disable it here too.
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Our Oceans: A Plastic Soup Trash Travels, Ocean Conservancy’s 2010 report, states that 60 percent of all marine debris in 2009 consisted of “disposable” items, with the most common being cigarettes, plastic bags, food containers, bottle caps and plastic bottles.
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Adynamic  Ileus Adynamic ileus results in the dilatation of loops of bowel from smooth muscle dysfunction, as opposed to mechanical obstruction. Dilatation may be localized or diffuse, depending on the etiology. The colon may or may not also be involved.
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION And every year, billions of pounds of plastic end up in the world’s oceans. Most ocean pollution starts out on land and is carried by wind and rain to the sea. Once in the water, there is a near-continuous accumulation of waste. Most ocean pollution starts out on land and is carried by wind and rain to the sea. Once in the water, there is a near-continuous accumulation of waste. Due to its low density, plastic waste is readily transported long distances from source areas and concentrates in gyres, systems of rotating ocean currents.
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- The following reasoning led to the above mentioned carbon dioxide (CO2) emission for plastics: 1  The production of 1 kg of polyethylene (PET or LDPE), requires the equivalent of 2 kg of oil for energy and raw material (see here). Polyethylene PE ist the most commonly used plastic for plastic bags.
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- In developed countries, about a third of plastic is used in packaging and another third in buildings such as piping used in plumbing or vinyl siding. Other uses include automobiles (up to 20% plastic), furniture, and toys.