GLOBAL PLASTIC PRODUCTION
* The first synthetic plastic - Bakelite - was produced in 1907
* However, rapid growth in global plastic production didn’t happen until the 1950s.
* Over the next 70 years, however, annual production of plastics has increased nearly 230-fold to 460 million tonnes in 2019.
* Even just in the last two decades, global plastic production has doubled.
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