Plastic Waste Statistics In Malaysia 2020



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Plastic waste statistics in malaysia 2020. 100 of baby sea turtles have plastic in their stomachs. January 27 2020 7 00 am malaysian town covered in 19 000 tons of plastic waste reports business insider. Waste management statistics and overall recycling measures key highlights.

There is now 5 25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in our ocean 46 000 pieces in every square mile of ocean weighing up to 269 000 tonnes. Malaysia flooded with plastic waste. 90 of the trash floating in our oceans is made of plastic around 46 000 pieces per square mile.

It is estimated that malaysia produced almost one million tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste in 2010 of which 0 14 to 0 37 million tonnes may have washed into the oceans. Try our corporate solution for free. The production of plastic uses around 8 of the world s oil production.

In 2020 the estimated value of annual food plastic packaging consumption in malaysia amounted to 148 thousand metric tons. Recycling one ton of plastic saves the equivalent of 1 000 to 2 000 gallons of gasoline. The 6 per cent reduction in the amount of waste generated compared to 2018 is the third yearly reduction since 2017.

In 2019 about 7 23 million tonnes of solid waste was generated of which 4 25 million tonnes were recycled. Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic makes. An analysis of asia s worst ocean polluters shows malaysians are the biggest individual consumers of plastic packaging green group wwf said on monday urging the government to limit single use plastics and work with companies to fund a recycling push.

Shocking ocean plastic statistics. Environmental protection expenditure recorded an annual growth rate of 4 0 per cent to rm2 7 billion. In 2020 85 percent of municipal solid waste in malaysia was dumped in environmentally unsound disposal methods.

Plastic is made from petroleum. More than 1 million seabirds and 100 000 marine animals die from plastic pollution every year. Malaysia seriously has a.

In 2020 plastic is a dirty word. Such a negative view of plastic did not always exist though. Wednesday 03 june 2020 1200 compendium of environment statistics malaysia 2019.