Is It Worse to Burn Oil or Turn It Into Plastic?
And more questions on the future of plastic and the environment
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5 min readJul 18, 2019
How much plastic is there in the world?
An estimated 9 billion tons of plastic has been produced so far. Of this, 5.4 billion tons has been chucked into landfill or scattered onto land and sea. To get a sense of what this…