What will Earth's plastic problem look like in 2040?

Costas Velis and Ed Cook, The Conversation Plastics & Pollution

What will Earth's plastic problem look like in 2040?
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Our research published in Science involved a herculean effort to spot, track and model the current and future flows of plastics into the world’s land and waterbodies. We found that plastic entering the marine environment is set to double by 2040 and, unless the world acts, more than 1.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste will be dumped on land and in waterbodies.

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