tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:940621 profpr profpr 2016-01-20T19:09:59Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-28:940621:457294 2016-01-20T19:03:47Z 2016-01-20T19:09:59Z public 0 <span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">There are 165 million tons of plastics in the ocean today, which is 1/5th of the estimated weight of fish. The amount of plastic ending up in the ocean is increasing, so that in the business-as-usual scenario by 2050s the ocean is expected to contain more plastic than fish by weight. Only 14% of plastic packaging is collected for recycling; when additional losses in sorting and reprocessing are factored in, only 5% of material value is retained for a subsequent use. <br /></span><a href="http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_New_Plastics_Economy.pdf">www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_New_Plastics_Economy.pdf</a><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=profpr&ditemid=457294" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments