Latest News About Global plastic waste

Single-use plastics continue to threaten ecosystems, roughly half of plastic products are single-use, recycling globally sits near 9%, hundreds of millions of tonnes of mismanaged plastic enter oceans yearly. Oceanic plastics number in the trillions of pieces, ghost gear causes hundreds of thousands of whale and dolphin deaths yearly, and rising microplastics have been detected in human blood in recent studies, If current production continues, plastic-related greenhouse gas emissions could rival those from hundreds of coal-fired plants by 2040, highlighting the urgent need for policy and consumer action.