Climate Change – Understanding plastic waste and what we should do about it - Life Publications

Climate Change – Understanding plastic waste and what we should do about it - Life Publications

We create hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic every year, making products with an average useful lifespan of around 10 years. The plastic problem is this: plastics do not decompose. They take on average 400 years to break down into microplastics which then remain forever accumulating in the environment, with growing toxic effects on biological health. According to scientists in one report, 80% of plastic pollution could be cut by reducing …