OTTAWA — Mother Nature delivered a typical spring day Wednesday in Ottawa, with a morning of light drizzle fading into afternoon sunshine, near-freezing temperatures — and thousands of grams of plastic.
That"plastic forecast" comes from a project of Australia's Minderoo Foundation, trying to draw attention to the scope of the world's plastic problem as negotiations for a global treaty to end plastic waste continue in the national capital.The data is based on scientific measurements of microplastics in the air in Ottawa that were gathered by Minderoo scientists in February and March.
"I think it's really serious and the fact that it's raining down on us, essentially, because it's everywhere." The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says global plastic production grew from 234 million tonnes in 2000 to 460 million tonnes in 2019, while plastic waste grew from 156 million tonnes to 353 million tonnes.Statistics Canada, which recently updated its plastics data reporting to aid the national zero-plastic waste strategy, reports that nationally, plastic production and imports grew from 5.6 million tonnes in 2012 to almost 7.
"Every plastic bottle or bag or straw that we leave out in the environment eventually will break up into thousands and thousands of microplastics," said Anja Brandon, associate director of U.S. plastics policy at Ocean Conservancy.
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