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Global plastic bottle waste scale 2009-2019

Published by Ian Tiseo, Feb 6, 2023
The sheer volume of plastic bottle waste produced worldwide has become a more noticeable problem in the last decades. Every hour, some 54.9 million plastic bottles are discarded and some 481.6 billion bottles are thrown out in one year.

Key figures on the volume of plastic bottle waste generated worldwide from 2009 to 2019

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Release date

September 2019

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2009 to 2019

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