Here’s an extract from the radio:
Jack Board:  ,
Do you believe that the world produces the most cheap annually? In 1950, it was about 2000 kilograms. But by 2020, we’d reached more than 400 million kilograms in that year. And what about the direction? By 2050, by some estimations, the earth had been creating 1.1 billion tonnes periodically- mad numbers.  ,
Liling Tan:
It’s tough, it’s dynamic, it’s cheap. The issue though, is that it lasts generally long, or at least generations and generations. Every plastic bottle ever created is still available if it has n’t been incinerated or transformed into something else because it takes a plastic bottle roughly 450 years to break down. Now, the gravity of what we’ve made as a modern civilisation is pretty hard to comprehend, is n’t it?  ,
Jack:
It is, and the fact that it simply keeps growing and growing. There are more than 6 billion tonnes of discarded polymer in the atmosphere, according to estimates, and producing all of it also generates a lot of carbon pollution.  ,