By 2050, plastic rubbish in the oceans will outweigh fish, according to a new report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation released at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
The United States, Europe and Asia together account for 85 percent of plastics production, roughly split between the U.S. and Europe on one side and Asia on the other.
Some 95 percent of plastic packaging produced each year is lost to the economy after a single use.
Out of all the plastic produced every year, only five percent is recycled effectively. Around 40 percent is buried in landfills, and about 32 percent reaches the oceans.”
This corresponds to dumping the contents of one garbage truck into the ocean every minute.
The production of plastic, which now stands at around 311 million tonnes a year, is expected to quadruple by 2050.
This will bring the ratio of plastic to fish in the ocean, calculated according to weight, from 1:5 to more than 1:1.
The report urges people to take action and to rethink the way we use and recycle plastic. It also suggests that manufactures help reduce plastic waste by producing not only plastic that is reusable but also compostable plastics, a new generation of plastics that are biodegradable through composting.
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