WORLD’S PLASTIC WASTE COULD BURY MANHATTAN 2 MILES DEEP
Jul 21, 2017
2 minutes
Industry has made more than 9.1 billion tons of plastic since 1950 and there’s enough left over to bury Manhattan under more than two miles of trash, according to a new cradle-to-grave global study.
Plastics don’t break down like other man-made materials, so three-quarters of the stuff ends up as waste in landfills, littered on land and floating in oceans, lakes
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