An Astounding Statistic
(WorldNews Environment)

90.5 percent: the proportion of plastic waste that has never been recycled. That figure, determined by UC Santa Barbara marine scientist Roland Geyer and published last year in the journal Science Advances , is the winner of the Royal Statistical Society`s (RSS) 2018 International Statistic of the Year. Of all the plastic every produced, worldwide - more than 8 billion metric tons - roughly 30 percent is still in use. Of the remaining amount, Geyer and his research team found, only 9.5 percent...