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There are 8.3 billion tons of plastic in the world

A study in the new issue of Science Advances, the total amount of plastic that was ever produced in the world is estimated at 8300 Million tons.

The industrial production of plastic in a large scale began in the 1950s and has grown since then, becoming faster and faster. Two years ago, to date, the worldwide quantity produced was “only” 6300 million tons. Only 9 percent of this was recycled, 12 percent were burned and whole, 79 percent ended up in landfills or in the environment.

But what you should imagine is actually under 8300 million tons? An incredibly large mountain that weighs 18.400 times as much as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world. Or in German: 320.000 times as much as the Berlin TV tower.

Still difficult to imagine? It would also be roughly comparable with the weight of 56,000 of the giant US aircraft of the Nimitz-class or 55 millions (Yes, millions!) Jumbo.Jets.



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