David HoIn the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of #plastic.
That's equivalent in weight to the amount of CO₂ we emitted to the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024.
J.K. Ullrich@davidho I’m not sure which of those statistics is more horrifying.
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ponyponypony just cannotHoly shit, what? And I'm pretty sure that plastic is heavier than carbon dioxide, too.
Sepia Fan@davidho
It's true:
1️⃣ Plastic (9.492 Mt/1950-2019):
https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
2️⃣ CO2 (37.150 Mt/2022):
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-metrics
It's true:
1️⃣ Plastic (9.492 Mt/1950-2019):
https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
2️⃣ CO2 (37.150 Mt/2022):
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-metrics
N3r0@davidho easier to burn coal and oil than process it.
mr brown 
@davidho plastic is the most effective form of carbon sequestration we have found so far 😉
Børge@davidho I'm curious what happened in 2010
s�d@forteller @davidho 2008 financial crash
@davidho omg this so much, keep reminding people that the minority of crude oil is used for plastic products and they keep being surprised by that.
co2 per weight is a bit misleading since it's 2/3 Oxygen that was already in the air by weight. (Like to make it comparable to oil based plastics which is ?majority? Per weight in carbon?)
Thanks for your work!
das_menschy@davidho And burning 1 ton of plastic produces approximatelly 2,9 tonnes of CO2.
That's because the carbon (C) in the plastic connects with the oxygen (O2) from the air during burning, so the "additional" weight comes from the air.