Scary stat: 90.5 percent of plastic is not recycled
Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:18:39 +0000
LONDON — The burgeoning crisis in plastic waste has won the attention of Britain’s Royal Statistical Society, which chose 90.5 percent — the proportion of plastic waste that has never been recycled — as its international statistic of the year.
The society, which chooses a winner from nominations made by the public, picked the statistic generated in a United Nations report based on the work of U.S. academics Roland Geyer, Jenna R Jambeck, and Kara Lavender Law.
Public awareness of the problem has been growing, particularly after filmmaker David Attenborough’s documentary “Blue Planet II” showed sea turtles shrouded in plastic among other horrors.
Geyer said he was honored by the accolade and hopes “it will help draw attention to the problem of plastic pollution that impacts nearly every community and ecosystem globally.” /kga