Global Plastic Pollution Study

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Uncollected waste and open burning leading causes of the plastic pollution crisis

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University of Leeds researchers used A.I. to model waste management in more than 50,000 municipalities around the world.

Their study calculated 52 million tonnes of plastic products entered the environment in 2020 -- which, laid out in a line would stretch around the World over 1,500 times.

It also revealed that more than two thirds of the planet's plastic pollution comes from uncollected rubbish.

Sub-Saharan Africa could become the world's largest source of plastic pollution in the next few decades .

Many of its countries have poor waste management and the population is anticipated to grow rapidly.

The United Kingdom currently has the per-capita equivalent of less than three plastic bottles per person per year.

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