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+====== Waste Planets ======
+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 the pollution of the earth&#39;s ecosystem with plastic. Because it can take between 100
+and 500 years until a plastic bag has completely disintegrated, depending on the plastic
+used. Between 1950 and 2015, 8.3 billion tons of plastic were produced worldwide. Of this,
+.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 &quot;recycled&quot;. In the environment, plastics are mechanically pulverized to so-called
+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, which can even penetrate into human and animal cells due to their small
+size. The consequences are still largely unknown.
+Source: Tagesschau.de
+|{{:experiments:waste_planet:mikroplastik_1500.png?direct&800|Figure 1}}|

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