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
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
Plastic Pollution

How much plastic ends up in the ocean? Where does it come from?

Our World in Data