In 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.

@davidho I’m not sure which of those statistics is more horrifying.

@WildTypeWriter

The second, by far, imho. I'm astonished

@davidho