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500
BILLION
The world produces more than 500 billion plastic bags per year .
SOURCE : PLASTICOCEANS . ORG
855
BILLION
sachets are used every year .
SOURCE : A PLASTIC PLANET
PHOTO : 123RF
Councillor Ashmore says the municipality and its many community groups with environment and sustainability agendas can see the significant potential inherent in being a front-runner in this quest . “ The climate emergency is everywhere and the race is very much on to be the first to find and develop the best sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels and derivative materials like plastics . It is good for the whole planet , and it also presents a big opportunity for developing new industries and new jobs here at Portsmouth and in the UK generally .
“ This means we have to make bold decisions and that ’ s why it is brilliant to be working with a university already recognised internationally as being one of the research leaders .”
House on stilts in Cambodia . Of the one million plastic bottles sold every minute across the globe , only 14 per cent are recycled . Most end up in the oceans , damaging marine ecosystems .
July 2021
United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) report led by the University of Portsmouth – Policy Options to Eliminate Additional Marine Plastic Litter by 2050 Under the G20 Osaka Blue Ocean Vision – is published .
July 2021
The University becomes the first non US partner of a new project to tackle plastic pollution in the USA : The Bottle Consortium .
July 2021
Portsmouth joins leading AI researchers at DeepMind to help engineer faster acting enzymes for recycling some of the world ’ s most polluting single-use plastics .
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