人类迄今生产了超过91亿吨塑料,其中大多数都被堆入垃圾填埋场或乱丢在自然环境中。照此速度发展,蓝色的地球可能最终变成“塑料星球”。自1945年后,塑料被大规模生产和使用,如今人们日常生活中处处会出现塑料的身影,被用作包装、工程材料以及衣物材料等。这超过91亿吨塑料的约一半,生产于过去13年间。2015年,全球共生产4.4亿吨塑料,产量是1998年的两倍多。 Mankind has so far produced more than 9.1 billion tons of plastic, most of which are piled into landfills or littered with the natural environment. At this rate, the blue planet may eventually become “plastic planet.” Since 1945, plastics have been mass-produced and used. Nowadays, plastics appear everywhere in daily life and are used for packaging, engineering materials and clothing materials. This is more than about half of 9.1 billion tons of plastic produced in the past 13 years. In 2015, a total of 440 million tons of plastic were produced worldwide, more than double the amount produced in 1998.