Telling Numbers: How plastic pollutes, how much waste the states generate | Explained News, The Indian Express

Telling Numbers: How plastic pollutes, how much waste the states generate | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: August 19, 2019 7:37:47 am

Telling Numbers: How plastic pollutes, how much waste the states generate

Worldwide, 75 per cent of all plastic produced is waste, and 87 per cent of this is leaked into the environment.

Over one-third of plastic waste ends up in nature, especially water, which is the largest source of plastic ingestion according to the report.

In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for freeing India from “single-use plastic”. The environmental harm caused by plastic has been the subject of international research and government reports over the years.