A million bottles a minute: world’s plastic binge ‘as dangerous as climate change’

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Exclusive: Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardizing oceans, coastlines and other environments.

Read article and watch video. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/28/a-million-a-minute-worlds-plastic-bottle-binge-as-dangerous-as-climate-change

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A million bottles a minute: world’s plastic binge ‘as dangerous as climate change’

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