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1. www.undp.org › georgia › newsEnd Plastic Pollution Georgia! | United Nations Development ...

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   Over the past decade, plastic production and imports in Georgia have surged by a staggering 71 percent. Illegal dumpsites plague nearly every village in the country, often found near gorges, riverbanks, and coastal areas, with plastic waste comprising a significant portion of this litter.

2. www.cenn.org › end-plastic-pollution-in-georgiaEnd Plastic Pollution in Georgia - CENN - Shaping The Future ...

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   Aug 15, 2024 · In 2020, nearly 93% of plastic items produced and imported in Georgia turned into waste, predominantly consisting of SUP. The repercussions extend to environmental pollution with plastic constituting over 95% of litter on Georgia’s beaches and plastic waste making up a significant portion of illegal dumpsites across the country.

3. jambeck.engr.uga.edu › landplasticinputPlastic waste inputs from land into the ocean – Jambeck ...

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   One of our major findings is that the amount of plastic entering the ocean from plastic waste generated on land is 20 to 2000 times larger than estimates of the amount of plastic floating at the sea surface globally.

4. scienceforgeorgia.org › Single-Use-Plastics-GASINGLE USE PLASTICS & GEORGIA

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   The city of South Fulton passed a city ban on single-use plastic bags and containers to reduce waste, prioritize sustainability, and protect the environment. Items prohibited by the ban include plastic cups and straws, food containers, and grocery bags. Bags and containers must be certified compostable, 100% recyclable, or

5. news.uga.edu › new-science-paper-magnitude-plasticNew Science paper calculates magnitude of plastic waste going ...

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   Feb 12, 2015 · How much mismanaged plastic waste is making its way from land to ocean has been a decades-long guessing game. Now, the University of Georgia’s Jenna Jambeck and her colleagues in the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis working group have put a number on the global problem.

6. www.science.org › doi › 10Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean | Science

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   Feb 13, 2015 · By linking worldwide data on solid waste, population density, and economic status, we estimated the mass of land-based plastic waste entering the ocean. We calculate that 275 million metric tons (MT) of plastic waste was generated in 192 coastal countries in 2010, with 4.8 to 12.7 million MT entering the ocean.

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   How much mismanaged plastic waste is generated by the coastal population?

   • The amount of mismanaged plastic waste generated by the coastal population of a single country ranges from 1.1 MT to 8.8 million MT per year, with the top 20 countries’ mismanaged plastic waste encompassing 83% of the total in 2010 ( Fig. 1 and Table 1 ).

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   How much plastic waste enters the ocean?

   • Our estimate of plastic waste entering the ocean is one to three orders of magnitude greater than the reported mass of floating plastic debris in high-concentration ocean gyres and also globally ( 14 – 17 ).

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   How much waste is generated by urban centers?

   • This estimate is broadly consistent with an estimated 1.3 billion MT of waste generated by 3 billion people in urban centers globally ( 5 ). Approximately 11% (275 million MT) of the waste generated by the total population of these 192 countries is plastic.

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   How much plastic is in the ocean?

   • Their study, reported in the Feb. 13 edition of the journal Science, found between 4.8 and 12.7 million metric tons of plastic entered the ocean in 2010 from people living within 50 kilometers of the coastline. That year, a total of 275 million metric tons of plastic waste was generated in those 192 coastal countries.

   New Science paper calculates magnitude of plastic waste

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8. www.undp.org › georgia › storiesFrom Plastic Production to a Circular Economy | United ...

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   For now, we reprocess around 30 tonnes of plastic waste monthly, aiming to increase this amount to 50 tonnes,” says Levan Iosebashvili, a young, 34-year-old entrepreneur and the head of LL Plast, a plastic packaging producer from Georgia’s Kakheti region.