Released Jan. 11, the report highlights a few staggering statistics on plastics use. Notably, the plastic generated every year weighs in at roughly 380 million metric tons, not much less than the total weight of every human being on the planet.
Microplastics, produced through the physical breakdown of larger plastics, are thus ubiquitous in our bodies and the wider environment: âThere is no litter on the summit of Everest, but there are microplastics,â the report states…