Over 9.1 Billion Tons of Plastic Have Been Produced and Most of it Thrown Away (VIDEO)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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This is an animation summarizing the production and fate of all plastics ever made.

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Carla Schaffer / AAAS

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