Every time you throw away a soda bottle or a snack wrapper, it might end up on a beach thousands of miles away from you. Now, hard numbers back up what many suspected for years. The study, ‘Global producer responsibility for plastic pollution,’ published in Science Advances, has found that just 56 companies are behind the majority of branded plastic waste found in nature. Researchers say it is among the clearest data-backed efforts linking the amount of plastic a company produces to how much ends up polluting the world.
The five-year cleanup that named names
