World Produces 52 Million Metric Tons of Plastic Pollution Yearly — VOA Learning English
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The world creates about 52 million metric tons of plastic pollution every year, a new study says.
More than two-thirds of that plastic comes from the Global South – a term that loosely describes developing countries.
The amount of pollution is enough to fill New York City’s Central Park with plastic waste as high as the Empire State Building, researchers at the University of Leeds in Britain say.
They examined waste produced on the local level at more than 50,000 cities and towns across the world for a study recently released in the publication Nature.
The study examined plastic that goes into the open environment. It did not examine plastic that goes into landfills or is properly burned. For…
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