2000 Microplastics Pollution Recycling 
The Environmental Blog
MARCH 19, 2020
With this change comes more energy and water consumption, more air and ocean pollution and more carbon emissions. Clothing production has approximately doubled since 2000, and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down. On top of the industry’s CO2 emissions , it also affects water consumption and air and ocean pollution.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, with the bulk of it ending up in landfill, incinerated or leaking into the environment, and only 9% successfully recycled, according to a new OECD report. Within that, OECD countries account for 11% of macroplastics leakage and 35% of microplastics leakage.
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Unsustainable
OCTOBER 12, 2019
words Brett Stadelmann Pollution caused by the manufacture, dispersal, and disposal of plastics is an issue which, directly or indirectly, affects every individual in the current age, and one which, even if every effort is made to correct it, will have an even greater effect on the next generation. In 2014-15, in Australia, around 2.5
Green Business Bureau
APRIL 21, 2021
Not all textile waste is suitable for some form of recycling and if clothes contain toxic chemicals, their potential for safe recycling and circularity is at best restricted, and at worst impossible. This consumption demand has driven fashion retailers to producing almost twice the amount of clothing than they did in 2000. .
Business Green
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Campaigners are stepping up calls for a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, as evidence grows that voluntary measures are struggling to turn the tide of plastic waste. In 2019 alone, 22 million tonnes of plastic materials leaked into the environment, of which microplastics smaller than 5mm in diameter made up 12 per cent.
Green Business Bureau
APRIL 21, 2021
Not all textile waste is suitable for some form of recycling and if clothes contain toxic chemicals, their potential for safe recycling and circularity is at best restricted, and at worst impossible. This consumption demand has driven fashion retailers to producing almost twice the amount of clothing than they did in 2000. .
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