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2023 Plastic Overshoot Day Report
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- Nearly 68,642,999 tonnes of additional plastic waste will end up in nature this year.
- India is among the 12 countries which are responsible for 52 per cent of the world’s mismanaged plastic waste.
- The world’s worst offender is Iceland, with annual consumption of 128.9 kg per person.
- This is 24.3 times higher than the yearly consumption per person of 5.3 kg in India.
- The global average consumption of plastic per person per year is 20.9 kg.
- 159 million tonnes of plastics (which can be used only for a short time) to be produced globally in 2023.
- 43 per cent of above (68.5 million tonnes) will end up causing pollution.
- Short-life plastics account for approximately 37 per cent of the total plastic commercialised annually.
- Three countries with the highest mismanaged waste — Mozambique (99.8 per cent), Nigeria (99.44 per cent) and Kenya (98.9 per cent).
- India ranks fourth in the MWI, with 98.55 per cent of generated waste being mismanaged.
- India has a cumulative capacity to process 14.2 million tonnes of plastic waste annually.
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