How the world fell in love with plastic without thinking through the consequences podcast
News Source : The Conversation Africa
News Summary
- Mark Miodowonik is a professor of materials and society at UCL in the UK
- He explains the history of plastic and how it’s shaped our lives
- In the 1970s, scientists working in plastic manufacturing companies were sounding alarms about all the plastic making its way to landfill and how long it took to degrade
- Today, there has been a shift in attitudes toward plastics as people are starting to realise the scale of plastic pollution
Joaquin Traverso Traverso/ShutterstockEvery year, 400 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide, and every year, approximately 57 million tons of plastic pollution is created. And yet in Novem [+4719 chars]
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