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How a 5,000-Year-Old Product Can Help Solve Today’s Plastic Waste Crisis
An immense mass of plastic hidden within the packaging supply chain plays a pivotal role in the global plastic waste crisis. This plastic contributes to irreversible environmental damage that future generations will inherit in their rivers, forestlands, and oceans.
Of the estimated 400 million tons of plastic produced every year, 40%, or 160 million tons, is used exclusively for packaging and typically used once and discarded. We can and must do better.
Every Animal Pulled From the Deepest Part of the Ocean Had Plastic in Its Gut
An immense mass of plastic hidden within the packaging supply chain plays a pivotal role in the global plastic waste crisis. This plastic contributes to irreversible environmental damage that future generations will inherit in their rivers, forestlands, and oceans.
Of the estimated 400 million tons of plastic produced every year, 40%, or 160 million tons, is used exclusively for packaging and typically used once and discarded. We can and must do better.
7 Surprising Facts about Plastic in Japan Samples
In 2018, Japan’s government unveiled a proposal to reduce the country’s 9.4 million tonnes of plastic waste a year by 25% by 2030.
The government has also decided to make it mandatory for retail shops to charge for plastic shopping bags in a bid to reduce waste, although this has yet to be enforced at the national level.