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The world is pumping out 57 million tons of plastic pollution a year

A man walks on a railway track littered with plastic and other waste materials on Earth Day in Mumbai, India, April 22, 2024. Associated Press
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By SETH BORENSTEIN fill New York City's Central Park with or is properly burned. For 15% of gineering professor. The other big-
AP Science Writer plastic waste as high as the Empire the world's population, govern- gest plastic polluting cities are New
The world creates 57 million tons State Building, according to re- ment fails to collect and dispose of Delhi; Luanda, Angola; Karachi,
of plastic pollution every year and searchers at the University of Leeds waste, the study's authors said — a Pakistan and Al Qahirah, Egypt.
spreads it from the deepest oceans in the United Kingdom. They exam- big reason Southeast Asia and Sub- India leads the world in generating
to the highest mountaintop to the ined waste produced on the local Saharan Africa produce the most plastic pollution, producing 10.2
inside of people's bodies, accord- level at more than 50,000 cities and plastic waste. That includes 255 mil- million tons a year (9.3 million met-
ing to a new study that also said towns across the world for a study lion people in India, the study said. ric tons), far more than double the
more than two-thirds of it comes in Wednesday's journal Nature. Lagos, Nigeria, emitted the most next big-polluting nations, Nigeria
from the Global South. The study examined plastic that plastic pollution of any city, ac- and Indonesia.
It's enough pollution each year — goes into the open environment, cording to study author Costas
about 52 million metric tons — to not plastic that goes into landfills Velis, a Leeds environmental en- Continued on Page 2