Global industrial plastic waste generation by sector 2015

Published by Ian Tiseo, Mar 29, 2021
This statistic depicts the plastic waste generation by the industrial sector worldwide in 2015, broken down by sector. In that year, around 141 million metric tons of plastic waste were generated by the packaging industry.

Plastic waste generation from the industrial sector worldwide in 2015, by sector (in million metric tons)

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Sources

OWID; Expert(s) (Geyer et al, 2017) Use Ask Statista Research Service

Release date

September 2018

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2015

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