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Humans have produced total 8.3 bn tonnes of plastic till now
short by Swarnim Bagre / on Thursday, 20 July, 2017
Over 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic, enough to cover the entire country of Argentina, has been generated by humans since the material's mass production started in 1950s, a US-based research has revealed. It also said that around 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic was produced by 2015, of which 79% resides in landfills or natural environment, while only 9% was recycled.
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