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We Made 5 Billion Tonnes of Plastic – Now What?

Link to Series Playlist:    • Plastic Breakdown Series – Can Biology Sol...   How much plastic have we actually created? And where is it now? This episode takes a step back — before we talk microbes or solutions, we need to know the scale of the problem. Welcome to Plastic Breakdown — a series exploring the science behind ocean plastic, and the biological processes that might help deal with it. 📦 How much plastic waste have we produced since it was invented? 🌍 Where is it stored — landfills, the environment, or the sea? 🧮 And how can we even estimate it in the first place? From global numbers to marine estimates, this episode lays the foundation. The answer isn’t what you expect — and the real problem might not be where you think it is. Subscribe for more deep dives into real-world problems, and how life might help fix them — eventually. 📌 Sources and further reading: Geyer et al. (2017) – Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made UNEP – From pollution to solution The Ocean Cleanup – Plastic waste statistics National Geographic – Planet or Plastic? #PlasticPollution #GlobalWaste #PlasticBreakdown #TheOddExperiment