DW Tomorrow Today July 13, 2024
We play with it. Out of it. Even sit on it its hard to imagine modern life without plastic almost 350000000 tonnes were produced worldwide in 2018 but plastic pollution is a serious environmental problem as the life cycle of an ordinary water bottle shows. Plastic bottles are made from petroleum the light particle can be found pretty much everywhere. Globally every single minute of the day a 1000000 are sold. Placed end to end the plastic bottle sold in 2016 would form a chain stretching all the way to the planet mercury. So youve bought a drink in a plastic bottle and finished it what happens...
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