As of 2019, one person on average consumed around 9.2 kilograms of single-use plastic bags annually in South Korea, followed by 1.4 kilograms of PET bottles and 0.9 kilograms of plastic cups. That year, the total volume of single-use plastic consumption in South Korea amounted to around 586.5 thousand tons.
Volume of single-use plastic items consumed per capita in South Korea in 2019 (in kilograms)
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