The world of plastics, in numbers
- Written by Eric Beckman, Professor of Chem/Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Millions of tons of plastic are manufactured every year.Bert Kaufmann/Wikimedia, CC BY
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From its early beginnings during and after World War II, the commercial industry for polymers – long chain synthetic molecules of which “plastics” are a common misnomer – has grown rapidly. In 2015, over 320 million tons of polymers,...