Facing the Plastic Bottleneck: Rethinking Recycling
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In order to gain a frame of reference for the current and future state of solid waste generation and treatment, trends pertaining to the use and disposal of plastics were analyzed to project plastic waste for the next decade. By extrapolating per capita plastic waste data, a logistic function was fitted to suggest that the annual per capita value is headed to stabilize at 94.97 thousand tons. With this determined function as well as census projections of population growth, an overall 341.15 million tons of nonrecycled plastic waste was estimated to be added into landfills from now through 2023.
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