RE: The place for plastics in a zero-emission economy31 Mar 2021 20:08
In Poland alone, the current demand for plastics amounts to 3.5 million tonnes per year. Across the EU, people produce 25 million tonnes of plastic waste yearly. Less than 30% is recycled. For comparison, 31% of plastic waste is landfilled and 39% is incinerated.
The leader of recycling plastic packaging is Lithuania, where according to Eurostat 74% are recycled. Next are Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Slovenia. The worst are the statistics in Estonia, Finland, and France, where only 27% of plastic packages are recycled.
The situation will not change as long as we do not change our way of consuming and processing waste, especially plastic waste. What is optimistic, in many places in the world and also in the EU the discussion has started on what measures should be taken to prevent a black scenario and how the question of plastics influences the environment and climate in a wide sense.