Relevance: Prelims/Mains: G.S paper III: Environment
A new report by the World Wide Fund (WWF) analyses the volume of plastic packaging placed on the market in six rapidly growing Asian economies — China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
- The report was commissioned by German consultancy GVM, which specialises in the packaging market.
Key highlights of the report:
- The report finds 93% of the waste of low-income countries is dumped in the environment, compared to 4% in high-income countries.
- Single-use plastics and packaging for consumer goods, particularly, increase plastic pollution. Globally, 36% of plastic usage is for packaging and over a third of it lands up into the environment.
- Of the six countries analysed in the report, Malaysia’s per capita plastic packaging consumption is the highest, at 16.78 kg.
- China’s annual household packaging consumption is the highest, at 19,765 million tonnes.
- The report estimates that 60% of marine plastic pollution originates in these countries and 8 million tonnes of plastic enters the oceans every year. It has projected a 300% increase in plastic packaging between 2010 and 2050.
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