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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Environment
Jess Staufenberg

Plastic credits: A ‘false solution’ or the answer to global plastic waste?

A plastic waste dump site in Accra, Ghana [Costanza Gambarini/SourceMaterial]

Each year, the world produces about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste – more than the combined weight of all the people on Earth.

Just 9 percent of it is recycled, and one study predicts that global emissions from plastic production could triple by 2050.

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