91% of all plastic ever manufactured is still unrecycled. Over the six decades of mass-producing plastic, humans have generated 8.3 billion tons of it, with that number steadily increasing.
The lack of planning for proper plastic disposal has led to a plastics crisis in the U.S. and globally.
Data source: Here’s How Much Plastic Trash Is Littering the Earth.
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