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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,
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 &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

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