A Plastic Planet
Industrial ecologist Roland Geyer measures the production, use and fate of all the plastics ever made, including synthetic fibers
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 – 11:00
Published in The Current, Santa Barbara, CA
More than 8 billion metric tons. That’s the amount of plastic humans have created since the large-scale production of synthetic materials began in the early 1950s. It’s enough to cover the entire country of Argentina, and most of the material now resides in landfills or in the natural environment. Read more…
