Statistics Reports Insights Research AI New Daily Data Services Solutions Prices & Access Energy & Environment› Waste Management Plastic waste in Europe - statistics & facts Choose a region: Europe More than 50 million tons of plastics are consumed every year in Europe. In 2023, only...
Plastic waste in the U.S. - statistics & facts Choose a region: United States The U.S. has a big plastic problem. Global plastic production has soared in the past half of century since it became commercially produced and is now ubiquitous in daily life. This growth has seen plastic waste...
California has introduced a new law that seeks to make the producers and vendors of plastic packaging responsible for waste, attempting to curb the amount that ends up polluting the oceans. Many environmental groups have supported this law; however, others have raised concerns about giving the plas...
Statistics for the 2023 & 2024 North America Plastic Waste Management market trends, created by Mordor Intelligence™ Industry Reports. North America Plastic Waste Management trend report includes a market forecast to 2030 and historical overview. Get a sample of this industry trends analysis as a ...
Plastic waste trade data were collected from the UN Comtrade Database, while information on BCPWA ratification in each country was extracted from the Secretariat of the Basel Convention website. Data on GDP per capita were obtained from the World Bank database. Table 2 Descriptive statistics Full...
Plastic Waste Management Market Analysis The Plastic Waste Management Market size is estimated at USD 40.43 billion in 2025, and is expected to reach USD 48.65 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 3.77% during the forecast period (2025-2030). The global plastic waste management market has experienced...
billion masks per year. There is also a threat of carbon dioxide emission due to increasing plastic waste. The number of facemasks used by China and Japan per day is near around 14.8 million (Dey et al.2023). Disposal face mask is alarming for the biodiversity, which can harm the digesti...
(Comparable statistics from more recent years are unavailable at the moment.) The numbers are given in thousands of U.S. tons, and they all apply to plastic items. 35,680: amount of plastic waste that was generated 3,090: amount of recycled waste (8.7% of the quantity that was ...
Following the growth of the global plastic manufacturing sector and the absence of a reusing (recycling) program or financing structure, waste plastic and rubbers are additional serious contaminants in terms of open dumping in the land or water channels. According to statistics, 11% of the 19–23...
Plastics Global plastic production 1950-2023 Waste Management Number waste items found in oceans worldwide 2023, by type Waste Management Plastic waste exports from the European Union 2015-2023, by destination Recommended statistics Overview Generation Waste management Trade PollutionKey...