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Footnote 027 / The Plastic Lifecycle

  • ---. Plastic Bags and Plastic Bottles - CO2 Emissions during Their Lifetime - Time for Change. https://timeforchange.org/plastic-bags-and-plastic-bottles-co2-emissions-during-their-lifetime/. Accessed 20 Dec. 2021.
  • Fuhr, Lili, et al. Plastikatlas: Daten und Fakten über eine Welt voller Kunststoff. Edited by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 2. Aufl, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 2019. K10plus ISBN, https://www.boell.de/de/2019/05/14/plastikatlas.
  • “GHG Emissions from Petrochemical Projects by Sector U.S. 2018”. Statista, Jan. 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/520627/petrochemical-project-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-the-us-by-sector/.
  • Geyer, Roland, et al. “Production, Use, and Fate of All Plastics Ever Made”. Science Advances, vol. 3, no. 7, July 2017, p. e1700782. science.org (Atypon), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700782.
  • “Global GHG Emissions Shares by Sub Sector”. Statista, Sept. 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1167298/share-ghg-emissions-by-sub-sector-sector-globally/.
  • “Global Plastic Production 1950-2020”. Statista, June 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/282732/global-production-of-plastics-since-1950/.
  • “Marine Plastic Pollution”. IUCN, Nov. 2021, https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/marine-plastic-pollution.
  • “Oil and Gas Drilling - The Process”. FracTracker Alliance, https://www.fractracker.org/resources/oil-and-gas-101/process/. Accessed 20 Dec. 2021.
  • Our Planet Is Drowning in Plastic Pollution. This World Environment Day, It’s Time for a Change. https://www.unep.org/interactive/beat-plastic-pollution/. Accessed 20 Dec. 2021.
  • “Plastic Pollution and Public Health: A Toxic Relationship”. National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, 5 Mar. 2020, https://www.ncelenviro.org/articles/plastic-pollution-and-public-health-a-toxic-relationship/.
  • “The Facts”. Plastic Oceans International, https://plasticoceans.org/the-facts/. Accessed 20 Dec. 2021.
  • “U.S. Plastic Packaging Recycling Rates by Product 1980-2018”. Statista, Jan. 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1229687/us-plastics-container-packaging-waste-recycling-rates-by-product/.
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