Madhumitha Jaganmohan
Research expert covering climate and environmental sustainability
Get in touch with us nowIn 2022, North America (Canada, the U.S., and Mexico) accounted for 17 percent of global plastics production. This made North America the world's second-largest plastic producing region that year, behind only China. The total global production volume of plastics in 2022 amounted to an estimated 400.3 million metric tons.
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