Why is plastic pollution a serious problem?
Plastic is one of the biggest Pandora's box of humanity. Being convenient and integrated into our lives, using it is inevitable. There are 430 million tonnes of plastics produced each year. Despite taking hundreds of years to decompose, larger plastics will break into smaller pieces which entering the food chain and may end up in our eating plates. Plastic never truly disappears.
Overview of Plastic Pollution
Different types of plastics are polluting our oceans. The trend of plastic pollution is worsening rapidly.
In 2020, 25 trillion macroplastics and 51 trillion microplastics have littered our oceans, also filling baby sea turtles’ stomachs with plastic.
In 2030. 90 million tonnes of plastic waste could be spewed into the world’s waters.
In 2050, if the trend remains, more plastic than fish will be filling up our oceans.
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Emerging technology and science knowledge has the potential to form a closed cycle from waste to product, which demonstrates a circular economy.