WWF calls for a global ban on ‘harmful and unnecessary’ single-use plastic items, such as vapes, cutlery and cosmetic microplastics, ahead of key UN plastic pollution treaty talks https://perma.cc/5GWN-AEMZ While plastic is cheap and versatile, with countless uses across many industries, almost half of all plastic is used to create short-lived or single-use products that can spend hundreds of years degrading – and most of which are consumed in high and upper-middle income countries. Research shows that by 2015, 60% of all plastics ever produced had already reached their end of life and been discarded. Globally, less than 10% of plastic products are recycled https://perma.cc/GSZ5-U4B4