“In the next 30 years, we’ll make four times more plastic waste than we ever have”
I hope I don’t start a habit of posting references to articles, but it’s hard not to share ones that say “In the next 30 years, we’ll make four times more plastic waste than we ever have.” That headline came from science.org, which referred to a journal article, Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made, from Science Advances.
We’re drowning in plastic. It doesn’t break down on human time scales. According to this research, we’ve barely started.
Plastic destroys life, liberty, and property, as do pollution and depletion in general. It seems to me government should treat it as it treats other activities that destroy life, liberty, and property, like murder, theft, and arson. Actually more like slavery, which the Thirteenth Amendment abolished (mostly). Read my book Sustainability Simplified for comparison and how to apply what we learned about abolishing slavery.
Anyway, here are projections from the article, in case you were comfortable and wanted a horror show:
If you prefer your data in bars or to see from the date on it 2017 that we’re closer to the four-times-more mark than the time the research was done. I suspect humanity has exacerbated the problem since then.
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