An estimated ** percent of global ocean plastic waste was emitted from Asia in 2019. The second largest plastic waste emitting region was Africa, which accounted for ***** percent of ocean inputs. Huge quantities of plastic waste ends up in the ocean from rivers, especially those with nearby cities. In 2019, more than *** percent of ocean plastic pollution was emitted from the Pasig river in the Philippines, which runs through Manila.

The amount of plastic waste generated worldwide is projected to triple by 2060, to surpass *********** metric tons. This dramatic growth is set to be fueled by rising populations and economic growth. With so much plastic waste generated, proper waste management will be urgently needed to reduce environmental impact. However, projections show that landfilling will continue to be the main disposal method worldwide by 2060, with recycling accounting for less than ** percent. Much of the plastic waste generated over the coming **** decades will be caused by packaging.

This dataset shows how global plastics emitted into the oceans breaks down by region. Data retrieved from Global Change Data Lab. Follow datasource.kapsarc.org for timely data to advance energy economics research.

Global plastic waste generation increased seven-fold between 1980 and 2019, reaching *** million metric tons in the latter year. Packaging was consistently the main source of plastic waste during this period, reaching *** million metric tons in 2019. Plastic waste is a major environmental issue around the world, with huge quantities leaking into marine ecosystems.

Here we provide a per-country results summary spreadsheet and high resolution global maps of total and mismanaged plastic waste generation as presented in Lebreton and Andrady (2019, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0212-7). LebretonAndrady2019_SummaryDatasheet.xlsxSummary results for the 188 countries investigated in the study. The file contains three tabs for lower, midpoint and higher estimate for plastic waste generation as well as an additional tab for per-country waste statistics and population + GDP forecast used by the predictive model. The highlighted cells in the Country Statistics tab are model predicted values where data was not available.LebretonAndrady2019_TotalPlasticWaste.tifTotal municipal plastic waste generation in kg.y-1 in 2015, computed on a global 30 by 30 arc seconds resolution grid.LebretonAndrady2019_MismanagedPlasticWaste.tifMismanaged Plastic Waste (MPW) generation in kg.y-1 in 2015, computed on a global 30 by 30 arc seconds resolution grid.Updated: -fixed negative waste generation values-removed rounding issues from .tiff file compression

As of September 2019, the main concern regarding plastic waste pollution among Mexicans had to do with water contamination. Up to ** percent of respondents in a survey said that was the main issue with plastic waste. In addition, ** percent of the people interviewed were concerned with air pollution resulting from plastic waste incineration.

An estimated *** million metric tons of plastic waste were generated worldwide in 2019. While ** million metric tons of this total were collected for recycling, just **** percent, or ** million metric tons, were recycled. Almost **** of global plastic waste was landfilled that year, while ** million metric tons were mismanaged and littered. Mismanaged plastic waste typically leaks into rivers, oceans, and other waterways, devastating marine life and ecosystems.

An estimated ** percent of global plastic waste emitted to the ocean in 2019 was from the Philippines. Much of the plastic waste emitted to the ocean was from the Pasig river, which runs through the capital city Manila. Asia contributes a substantial amount of plastic waste to the world's oceans, with the top five largest emitters accounting for ** percent of plastic waste inputs in 2019.

In 2019, the United States was the largest producer of plastic waste worldwide, with roughly ********** metric tons produced. China followed in second, with over ** million metric tons. Combined, these two countries accounted for almost ** percent of global plastic waste generation that year.

Full dataset of the citizen science data from riversides in Germany collected in the project Plastic Pirates and used within the study "What potential has the EU Single-Use Plastic Directive in reducing plastic pollution at coastlines and riversides? An evaluation based on citizen science data". Litter data for individual sampling sites and metadata can be found within the file. See the main text of the manuscript for a full description of methods for the collection of these data.

In 2019, the Philippines was the largest emitter of ocean plastics in the Asia-Pacific region, accounting for 36.38 percent of the global marine plastic pollution. India followed, contributing approximately 13 percent to ocean plastic waste worldwide.

 Mismanaged plastic waste across Asia

Asian countries and territories are responsible for over 80 percent of all global plastic waste emitted to the ocean. This is a result of waste mismanagement, attributable to lacking waste collection and processing infrastructures across several countries in the region. Recycling makes up a small share of waste disposal methods used, while open dumps are the most-employed practice in Southeast Asia. As the name suggests, open dumps are mostly uncovered, leading to a higher risk of pollution of the surrounding areas and especially leakage into rivers nearby. Rivers are a major source of marine debris, and South and Southeast Asian rivers make up the largest emitters of ocean plastics worldwide. River Pasig in the Philippines accounts for over six percent of this debris.

Impact on climate and people

Asia-Pacific is the world region most vulnerable to climate change and accompanying sea-level rise due to its many islands and low-lying coastal territories. Insufficient waste management practices such as open dumps or incineration are catalysts to global warming, as the exposure of plastic debris to sunlight and heat leads to the release of greenhouse gases. Consumers in Asia have shared their various concerns regarding plastics, including their effects on the global climate as well as ocean and marine life.

Here we provide a .xlsx file containing data associated with a field study sampling Australian waters to quantify plastic pollution in coastal areas. Please refer to the first tab (Read Me) in the Excel file for a detailed explanation of the data. The sampling occurred between the 18th of September 2018 and 10th of March 2019 during 4 voyages in Australian waters- Ashmore Reef and Long Reef, located north-west of Australia and Esperance and Bremer Bay, located south-west of Australia. The sites for this field campaign were selected mostly at random, except for a few sites in Ashmore Reef targeting the coastal fronts encountered, with visible accumulated plastics, organisms, and feeding megafauna. Sampling was done using manta trawls and drone transects, with additional random snorkelling surveys within the identified CGPs. The plastics found in the samples were characterised by size, type, colour, and weight in the laboratory. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at bru_calma@hotmail.com

This dataset shows the increase of global plastic production, measured in tonnes per year, from 1950 through to 2019.In 1950 the world produced only 2 million tonnes per year. Since then, annual production has increased nearly 200-fold, reaching 381 million tonnes in 2015. The short downturn in annual production in 2009 and 2010 was predominantly the result of the 2008 global financial crisis — a similar dent is seen across several metrics of resource production and consumption, including energy.

Plastic accounts for 80% of material waste in the ocean. The field of marine microplastic research is relatively new and is growing rapidly, in terms of published papers as well as institutions and countries conducting research. To combat plastic pollution, there is sufficient evidence that policies can lead to reduced plastic production and consumption both locally and globally. We aim to understand how marine plastics research and policies have grown and spread. Specifically, we used scientometric and spatial diffusion methods to best explain how ideas (in this case science and policy) clustered and spread geographically through time. We performed systematic literature searches to determine the spatial and temporal growth of marine microplastic publications and national plastic policies from 1900-2019. We found that more countries adopted national plastic policies than those that have conducted marine plastic research. Doubling times of each temporal growth rate analyzed (research pap...

​Awareness of and global concern for marine plastic pollution continues to grow, with initiatives being implemented to tackle the problem worldwide. The Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, set at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019, aims to ‘reduce additional pollution by marine plastics litter to zero...

In 2019, plastic waste generated by the packaging industry was estimated at more than *** ******* metric tons, the highest figure recorded within the industrial sector. The building and construction sector generated some ** million metric tons of plastic waste that same year.

This dataset uses data gathered from the Marine Debris Tracker, an app used by citizen and accredited scientists to log and geotag waste found on shorelines, and was gathered by Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR). The tens of thousands of entries were used in CLEAR’s Regional report on plastic pollution in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1962-2019.This data was downloaded from https://marinedebris.engr.uga.edu/, and cleaned by Max Liboiron, April 2020 (mliboiron@mun.ca). All data is public, and is inclusive to years Jan 1, 2014 - Dec 31, 2019.Download this dataset from: https://civiclaboratory.nl/2017/12/30/data-sets/HeadingsSource: directly downloaded from the MDTItemID: internal to MDTItemName: Descriptive name within material category (e.g. plastic bag)Latitude: latitudeLongitude: longitudeQuantity: number of items of one ItemName counted at one locationYear: calculated from original dataset timestamp- year onlyLocation: Name of location, based on inputting lat long into Google Maps and based on local knowledge of what places are actually called/known byMaterial ID: internal to MDT

SPREP is leading the charge to make the Pacific Games in July go plastic free in an awareness and outreach initiative aptly called Greening of the Games. This dataset holds a draft report and a raw baseline data collected from a clean-up at Mulinu'u executed on the 11th May 2019 by the the Team Samoa Va'a, to contextualize solutions and interventions to address marine litter and plastic pollution.

This dataset contains raw beaching data computed by marine debris simulations (run using OceanParcels) for a range of physical scenarios (surface currents from GLORYS12V1 (https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.698876), Stokes drift from WAVERYS (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-020-01433-w), and surface winds from ERA5 (https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3803)), as described in the accompanying manuscript. Through postprocessing, debris ‘connectivity’ matrices can be computed, providing predictions for the main terrestrial and marine source regions of plastic debris accumulating at remote islands in the western Indian Ocean. These simulations include beaching and sinking processes, and a set of example matrices is provided here (https://doi.org/10.5287/bodleian:DEdqwXZQw). However, these matrices can be recomputed for different sinking and beaching rates using the scripts archived here (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7351695), or see here (https://github.com/nvogtvincent/WIO_Marine_Debris/) for the live version with documentation. These predictions will be useful for environmental practitioners in the western Indian Ocean to assess source regions for marine debris accumulating at islands of interest, and when this debris is likely to beach. The data were produced as part of the Marine Dispersal and Retention in the Western Indian Ocean project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant NE/S007474/1. See linked online references on this record for cited items given above.

Statistics illustrates consumption, production, prices, and trade of Waste, parings and scrap, of plastics in Israel from Jan 2019 to Jun 2025.