By: Josh Davis/IFL Science One of the defining characteristics of the Anthropocene, the geological epoch we have recently ushered in, is the massive amount of plastics that we manufacture and discard. One of the reasons we use so much of it is because it’s difficult to degrade, but this also means that the billions of tons of plastic…
Humans Have Produced Over 8 Billion Tons Of Plastic, Enough To Completely Cover Argentina
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science If things carry on as they are, we will eventually bury the planet in plastics. That is the conclusion of a new study that has looked into just how much plastic humans have created, and where it all goes. In the first global analysis of the production of plastics, researchers have calculated…