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"When you drill down into plastics recycling, you realize it’s a myth." rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
"When you drill down into plastics recycling, you realize it’s a myth." rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
"We’ve found plastic everywhere we’ve ever looked. It’s in the Arctic and the Antarctic and in the middle of the Pacific. It’s in the Pyrenees and in the Rockies. It’s settling out of the air. It’s raining down on us.”
Since 1950, the world has created 6.3 trillion kilograms of plastic waste — and 91 percent has never been recycled even once, according to a landmark 2017 study published in the journal Science Advances.
Marine plastics picked up by the currents collect in massive ocean “gyres”—the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now twice the size of Texas.
The story on dry land is hardly more comforting. Plastics are widely used in agriculture and “microplastic pollution is somewhere between four and 23 times higher in the soil than in the sea,” says Lili Fuhr, editor of Plastic Atlas.
