<p>In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>plastic</span></a>. </p><p>That's equivalent in weight to the amount of CO₂ we emitted to the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024.</p>