When Plastic Waste Will Rule Us

  • 2025 annual global production estimated – 450 million tons
  • 2060 annual global production estimated – 1.2 billion tons
  • Plastics dumped from land sources into oceans each year – 12 million tons
  • Marine plastic waste = 80% from land + 20% from fishing, shipping and aquaculture
  • 2000 garbage trucks each day – dumped into water bodies – oceans/lakes/& others
  • Climate change + heath effects + pollution
  • Plastic pollution leak – 19-23 million tons plastic waste each year into seas, rivers and lakes
  • Plastic wastes – can persist for 100s of years  
  • SciTech has been able to advance just 9% of the plastic waste so far

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