Billions of bottles: Canadian statistics paint grim picture of plastic litter problem

New Canadian information recommend that over a nine-year interval between 2012 and 2020, the equal of extra 15 billion plastic bottles and as many as 14 billion plastic grocery luggage grew to become litter in Canada’s setting.

The information come as Canadian negotiators are at an Ottawa conference centre with friends from 174 different nations attempting to hammer out a world settlement to eradicate plastic waste.

The numbers are a part of a brand new dataset Statistics Canada compiled to help the federal authorities’s “zero-plastic waste agenda.”

It exhibits that greater than 348,000 tonnes of plastic waste was completely discarded within the setting between 2012 and 2020.

That contains 30,000 tonnes of plastic bottles and 72,000 tonnes of plastic movie, which is utilized in grocery luggage and meals wraps.

The information additionally present a 28 per cent improve in how a lot plastic Canada made or imported between 2012 and 2020, and a 14 per cent improve in how a lot plastic waste Canadians produced.