Plastic waste is everywhere — and countries must be held . . . Plastic waste is damaging ecosystems around the world Credit: Mark Rightmire MediaNews Group Orange County Register Getty Globally, some 400 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced each year 1
Fashion’s tiny hidden secret - UNEP Laundry alone causes around half a million tonnes of plastic microfibres to be released into the ocean every year—the equivalent of almost three billion polyester shirts This happens because water treatment plants let up to 40 per cent of microfibres they receive into lakes, rivers and the ocean due to their small size
Municipal solid waste compost: Global trends and . . . However, despite this, in 2000, only 4% of global urban nitrogen (N) (0 6 Tg N yr −1) and phosphorus (P) (0 08 Tg P yr −1) sources were recycled for food production agriculture (Morée et al , 2013), while ‘carbon farming’ schemes involving urban solid waste sources to improve soil C sequestration are still sporadic and have yet to
NUTS DRIED FRUITS STATISTICAL YEARBOOK World tree nut production has followed a rising trend over the past decade Total production amounts to 5 3 million metric tons in the 2022 23 season, in line with the previous season but below 2% below the record high of 5 4 M MT in 2020 21 Between the 2013 14 and 2022 23 seasons, global tree nut production grew at an average rate of about
Global Hides and Skins Market: Review of 2004-2007 and . . . From 2004 to 2007 the global bovine head averaged 1,566 3 million, which yielded approximately 6 2 million tonnes of raw hides per annum on a wet salted basis2 The average unit weight per hide was 18 3 kg Heavy leather production totalled 500,200 tonnes, while 13,832 million square feet of light leather, including split leather, were produced
Textile Exchange’s annual Materials Market Report shows . . . The data – which includes materials produced for the fashion, textile, and apparel industry as well as for other industries – shows that global fiber production increased from around 112 million tonnes in 2021 to a record 116 million tonnes in 2022 This is expected to grow to 147 million tonnes in 2030 if business continues as usual