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PLASTIC FOOD WASTE

Plastic waste has become a catastrophic problem throughout the entire world. For our project, however, we wanted to focus on one of the many sources of plastic pollution; plastic food packaging. Almost all of our food is packaged in some sort of synthetic material, most of which is single-use. As a result, the packaging ends up in landfills and the environment for centuries. 

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Don Francis

"Food packaging plastics account for the bulk of plastic waste that are polluting the environment"

- National Library of Medicine

Plastic Film Wrap

Ashley Jones

"(plastics) manufacture often generates air emissions including greenhouse gases, heavy metals and particulates, as well as wastewater and/or sludge containing toxic contaminants." 

- Food Print

Image by Jonathan Chng
Garbage Bin

Tess Brown

"Of all plastics produced worldwide today, nearly 40% are used for food and drink packaging."

- Earth.org

Trash on Beach

Lisa Rose

"If historic growth trends continue, global production of primary plastic is forecasted to reach 1,100 million tons by 2050"

- UN Environmental Programme

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