Industry data: global plastic production reached 431 million tonnes in 2024
Plastics Europe’s annual count shows global output still rising, with Asia making well over half of the world’s plastic.
Climate
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Single-use plastic waste is still growing: 139 million tonnes in 2021
Minderoo’s Plastic Waste Makers Index names the polymer producers behind single-use plastic and shows it growing despite bans.
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Uncollected waste and open burning, not littering, drive plastic pollution
A Nature study finds 52 million tonnes of plastic entered the environment in 2020, most of it burned or dumped where rubbish collection does…