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The World’s Plastic, Illustrated

Posted on July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 by Alexandra Reagan

June 24, 2019
The Guardian

Humans have made 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it’s gone: https://gu.com/p/by94e/stw

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