As of 2019, around 23.5 billion single-use plastic bags were consumed in South Korea, followed by 4.9 billion PET bottles and 3.3 billion plastic cups. That year, the total volume of single-use plastic consumption in South Korea amounted to around 586.5 thousand tons.
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Greenpeace. (December 31, 2019). Number of single-use plastic items consumed in South Korea in 2019 (in billions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1100576/south-korea-number-of-single-use-plastic-items-consumed/
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Greenpeace. (2019). Number of single-use plastic items consumed in South Korea in 2019 (in billions). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1100576/south-korea-number-of-single-use-plastic-items-consumed/
Greenpeace. "Number of Single-use Plastic Items Consumed in South Korea in 2019 (in Billions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 31 Dec 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1100576/south-korea-number-of-single-use-plastic-items-consumed/
Greenpeace, Number of single-use plastic items consumed in South Korea in 2019 (in billions) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1100576/south-korea-number-of-single-use-plastic-items-consumed/ (last visited July 22, 2024)
Number of single-use plastic items consumed in South Korea in 2019 (in billions) [Graph], Greenpeace, December 31, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1100576/south-korea-number-of-single-use-plastic-items-consumed/