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How a 'trash-to-treasure' mentality can change plastic waste
Emma Samson, World Economic Forum Plastics & Pollution
Since the 1950s, the increase in mass production of plastics has led to 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste. Unfortunately, 12% of this waste has been incinerated and only 9% successfully recycled with the rest buried in landfills all over the world. As plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade, most of it still exists in some form.
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