The sheer volume of plastic bottle waste produced worldwide has become a more noticeable problem in the last decades. Every hour, some 54.9 million plastic bottles are discarded and some 481.6 billion bottles are thrown out in one year.
Key figures on the volume of plastic bottle waste generated worldwide from 2009 to 2019
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Visual Capitalist. (September 10, 2019). Key figures on the volume of plastic bottle waste generated worldwide from 2009 to 2019 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1049979/scale-of-plastic-bottle-waste-global/
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