Question

Graph of impact of plastic on environment?

Answer 1

This is our main data entry on plastics, with a particular focus on its pollution of the environment. The first synthetic plastic — Bakelite  — was produced in 1907, and is said to mark the beginning of the global plastics industry. However, rapid growth in global plastic production was not realised until the 1950s. Over the next 65 years, annual production of plastics increased nearly 200-fold to 381 million tonnes in 2015. For context, this is roughly equivalent to the mass of two-thirds of the world population.1