Rate of plastic pollution will double by 2030 as report calls for end to single-use plastics

On average, we each use 53 kilograms of plastic a year and generate a collective total of more than 300 million tonnes of plastic waste. By 2030, this is predicted to double, with the brunt of the impacts expected to hit our oceans. These are just some of the figures to come from WWF's global plastic report, Solving Plastic Through Accountability, released today.

The report urges policy makers to draft a global, legally binding agreement to stop plastic entering marine environments, and to establish strong national targets to cut down on plastic use. About 40 per cent of plastics we consume today are single-use — things like cutlery, plates, food containers, electronics packaging. Single-use plastics simply have to go, according to Richard Leck, WWF's Head of Oceans and Sustainable Development.

In what he described at the time as a "rare display of political consensus", Greens Senator and inquiry chairman Peter Whish-Wilson said the Senate had "laid down a clear pathway for Australia to create a circular economy and stop piles of plastic, paper and glass being stockpiled or heading to landfill"

For More:https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-03-05/single-use-plastic-ban-wwf-report/9918870

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