We’re making a lot of plastic. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, we produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic.
But that's equivalent in weight to the amount of CO₂ we emitted to the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/26/plastics-companies-blocking-mitigation-efforts
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