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Last Updated: 29th Mar 2024

How much plastic waste are plastic bottles?

Americans use approximately 102.1 billion plastic bags each year. Each year, the U.S. throws away 2.4 million tons PET plastic. Water bottles account for between 26% and 41%.



Just so: What percentage of plastic waste is there?

It is estimated that around 55% of the world's plastic waste was discarded in 2015, 25% was incinerated and 20% was recycled. Only 9 percent of the plastic waste that was produced between 1950-2015 was recycled.

How much plastic is actually being recycled in the US, other than what I have just mentioned? The overall amount of recycled plastics in the US is small (3.0 million tonnes for an 8.4 percent rate of recycling in 2017,) but some types of plastic containers are more valuable.

How much plastic can be recycled in 2019?

This new study, published in Science Advances by peer-review journal Science Advances on Wednesday, provides the first global analysis of all plastics made and their fate. Out of the 8.3 million metric tons produced, 6.3 miliarde metric tons have been converted to plastic trash. Only nine percent of that amount has been recycled.

What is plastic consumption?

Global plastic consumption was estimated at 260m tons in 2008 and is expected to rise to 297.5 million tons by 2015. According to Global Industry Analysts' 2012 report, plastic consumption will reach 297.5m tons by 2015. These results show that 8 million tons of plastic end-up in the oceans every year.