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- | ====== Waste Planet | + | ====== Waste Planets |
- | No English version, yet. Go to the **[[: | + | The earth sinks into garbage |
+ | The earth can compensate for a certain amount of pollution, including CO 2 emissions. | ||
+ | However, the Global Footprint Network (GFN) has calculated that if all people on earth were | ||
+ | to live as we do in Germany, we would need 3 earths for this. This does not even take into | ||
+ | account | ||
+ | and 500 years until a plastic bag has completely disintegrated, | ||
+ | used. Between 1950 and 2015, 8.3 billion tons of plastic were produced worldwide. Of this, | ||
+ | 4.9 billion tons are stored in landfills or in the environment. Officially, the recycling rate in | ||
+ | Germany is 40%, a third of which ends up in the recipient countries for waste exports. There, | ||
+ | they are only partially recycled and often end up in poorly shielded landfills. Interestingly, | ||
+ | however, they are listed in the statistics of the Federal Environment Agency under the | ||
+ | heading & | ||
+ | microplastics. The smaller these microplastic particles are, the easier and deeper they | ||
+ | penetrate into organisms, including the human organism. A study commissioned by the | ||
+ | WWF has shown that each person ingests up to 5 g of microplastics per week, which | ||
+ | corresponds roughly to a plastic credit card. Particularly finely ground microplastics are also | ||
+ | called nanoplastics, | ||
+ | size. The consequences are still largely unknown. | ||
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+ | Source: Tagesschau.de | ||
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