2017-05-22 · percent of cumulative plastic
Half of all plastic was made since 2005
Petrochemicals turned oil into packaging. Cumulative production passed one billion tonnes.
Planetary boundaries love waffle charts — one cell is a fixed sip of the whole resource. This grid divides all plastic ever made (2017 snapshot) into colored bands — Since 2005 and Before 2005 — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of cumulative plastic (0.1% of all plastic ever made) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2017 figures from Science Advances — plastic put Since 2005 at 51% of all plastic ever made and Before 2005 at 49% — about 100 percent of cumulative plastic in this edition's rounding.
Science Advances 2017: >50% of polymers produced since 2005.
Geyer et al. Science Advances 2017: >50% of polymers produced since 2005.
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