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Can Our Individual Plastic Footprint Stop The Ocean Of Waste From Submerging Us?

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Forbes

Publication Date
2019-02-15

Plastic production will increase by 20,000% in 40 years if we keep things how they are. Plastic is everywhere. Over the years it became one of the most used material, and it got to a point where the cars and planes we travel on are made at 50% by plastic, or where it is more common for clothes to be made of polyester and nylon rather than of wool or cotton.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/annalisagirardi/2019/02/15/can-our-individual-plastic-footprint-stop-the-ocean-of-waste-from-submerging-us/#5a006f2b75b6