Researchers from the University of Georgia, the University of California, Santa Barbara and Sea Education Association found that by 2015, humans had generated 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics, 6.3 billion tons of which had already become waste. Of that waste total, only 9 percent was recycled, 12 percent was incinerated and 79 percent accumulated in landfills or the natural environment.
If current trends continue, roughly 12 billion metric tons of plastic waste will be in landfills or the natural environment by 2050.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170719140939.htm
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