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PACKAGING
FACTS & FUNS
Insights and Innovations of Food and Beverage Packaging
Neat Pizza Fingers
BY Radhika Seth
Some 18 billion pounds of
plastic waste flow into the
oceans every year from
coastal regions.
= Five grocery bags of
plastic trash sitting on
every foot of coastline cdn.yankodesign.com/
around the world.
NGM STAFF. SOURCE: JENNA R. JAMBECK, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Annual production of
plastics increased
nearly
200
folds from
1950s
to
381
million tonnes
The global packaging in 2015
industry grows
approximately ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
About90% of all U.S.
3.5% every year. Products are shipped using
corrugated cardboard packaging.
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