🔴 🌍 Packaging is the source of 40% of the planet’s plastic waste
Veronika Samborska
"Packaging accounts for 37% of total plastic waste in the United States. It’s 38% in Europe, and in China, it's 45%. Together, these regions account for 60% of global packaging waste generation."
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/packaging-is-the-source-of-40-of-the-planets-plastic-waste
@bibliolater thanks for sharing! How often is this data updated? Seems the data is from 2019z
I’ve been in southwest China for the last 9 months and I see first hand the use of single use packaging.
@Chiquidrakula The data is from an OECD report :
OECD (2022), Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/aa1edf33-en.
I assume it will be updated when a new report is done.
@bibliolater thanks!