Plastic Less Than Fantastic: Addressing Art’s Waste-Packaging Problem
Every year the United Kingdom alone generates more than two million metric tons of plastic packaging waste.
Since plastic manufacturing took off in the 1950s, global production of the non-biodegradable substance has now topped 9 billion metric tons, more than half of which ends up as waste. Of that a sizeable proportion is packaging waste.
Every year the United Kingdom alone generates more than two million metric tons of plastic packaging waste, equating to roughly 36 kilograms of plastic packaging waste per person.
