Note that we’ve visualized plastic wasteper capita, which is different from the total amount of waste produced by a country. It is for this reason that major polluters, such as China and India, are not present in this ranking. It’s also worth noting that this focuses on the demand sid...
Visualizing Mismanaged Plastic Waste by CountryPlastic is one of the most useful materials around, but its proliferating use has created a ballooning heap of plastic waste, with more than 350 million tonnes generated each year.Only a fraction of plastic waste is recycled, and about one-fifth ...
This study investigates the impact of an international environmental agreement that requires prior notification from the country exporting plastic waste an
Plastic waste is a global issue, and within Europe, Spain is a big part of the problem. Ranking as the fourth-largest producer of plastic packaging waste in the European Union –behind only Germany, France, and Italy – the Mediterranean country’s output stood at almost 1.8 million metric ...
Plastic waste is a global issue, and within Europe, Spain is a big part of the problem. Ranking as the fourth-largest producer of plastic packaging waste in the European Union –behind only Germany, France, and Italy – the Mediterranean country’s output stood at almost 1.8 million metric ...
Fig. 1. Plastic waste production per capita, per country [10]. Similarly, the rising production of cement in general and the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) in particular pose another serious threat to the environment that environmentalists are concerned about [11,12]. To safeguard the enviro...
BERLIN, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Germans produced 18.16 million tons of plastic packaging in 2016, averaging 220 kilograms per capita, which is more than that of any other country in the European Union, data revealed on Thursday. The per capita use of plastic packaging in Germany is well above...
The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the U.S. contributes.
Even if the government did enact strong plastic pollution regulations, without adequate Māori representation, parliament would still be in breach of Te Tiriti by positioning itself as the ultimate authority. Despite these barriers, Rick Thorpe (zero waste expert) predicts that “Māori are going to...
Visitors to Japan are often surprised by the amount of packaging involved in even the most basic of transactions – most convenience stores wrap individual bananas in plastic. The country produces more plastic packaging waste per capita than any nation apart from the United States, according to the...