copy and paste this google map to your website or blog!
Press copy button and paste into your blog or website.
(Please switch to 'HTML' mode when posting into your blog. Examples: WordPress Example, Blogger Example)
Plastic - Wikipedia Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic materials composed primarily of polymers Their defining characteristic, plasticity, allows them to be molded, extruded, or pressed into a diverse range of solid forms
The World’s Plastic Problem Is Only Getting Worse - Bloomberg Plastic pollution is already bad, and it’s only slated to get worse A lot worse A new analysis of the rising tide of plastic is the subject of today’s newsletter Plus, a widely-referenced
Breaking the Plastic Wave 2025 | The Pew Charitable Trusts Preface In 2020, The Pew Charitable Trusts and Systemiq published a groundbreaking report, “Breaking the Plastic Wave,” amid significant data gaps on plastic pollution, substantial debate over the scale of the plastic pollution problem and various proposals to meet the challenge With that report, Pew and our partners sought to move the global discourse forward by identifying a credible
About Plastic Products and Plastic Pollution | US EPA Plastic products are generally versatile, durable and lightweight Plastic products are prominent in the construction, transportation, and packaging industries Plastic innovations contributed to many life-saving products that revolutionized the health care industry
Plastic Pollution - Our World in Data On this page, you can find all of our data, visualizations, and writing on plastic pollution The first synthetic plastic – Bakelite – was produced in 1907, marking the beginning of the global plastics industry However, rapid growth in global plastic production didn’t happen until the 1950s
Plastic - Scientific American Plastic coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field
How Plastics Work - HowStuffWorks In this article, we'll examine the chemistry of plastic, how it's made, how it's used, and how it's disposed of and recycled We'll also look at some new biologically based plastics and their role in the future of plastic
Everything you need to know about plastic pollution Affordable, durable and flexible, plastic pervades modern life, appearing in everything from packaging to clothes to beauty products But it is thrown away on a massive scale: every year, more than 280 million tonnes of short-lived plastic products become waste