{"id":30114,"date":"2018-01-25T06:58:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T11:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30114"},"modified":"2018-01-25T06:58:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T11:58:21","slug":"each-eu-citizen-creates-31kg-of-plastic-waste-per-year-but-the-irish-are-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30114","title":{"rendered":"Each EU Citizen Creates 31kg Of Plastic-Waste Per Year (But The Irish Are Worst)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-24\/each-eu-citizen-creates-31kg-plastic-waste-year-irish-are-worst\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Each EU Citizen Creates 31kg Of Plastic-Waste Per Year (But The Irish Are Worst)<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"#222\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>Plastic packaging waste is a huge problem around the world. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite efforts in some European countries such as plastic bottle deposit schemes or having to pay for plastic bags in the supermarket, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/12425\/eu-plastic-waste\/\">Statista&#8217;s Martin Armstrong notes<\/a> that<strong> the average EU citizen creates 31kg of plastic waste per year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Infographic: Each EU citizen creates 31kg of plastic waste per year | Statista\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/12425\/eu-plastic-waste\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/infographic.statista.com\/normal\/chartoftheday_12425_eu_plastic_waste_n.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: Each EU citizen creates 31kg of plastic waste per year | Statista\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more statistics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/en\/web\/waste\/key-waste-streams\/packaging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurostat<\/a>\u00a0figures show that<strong> the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/755\/uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK<\/a>\u00a0lies above this average,<\/strong> with its citizens responsible for 35kg of waste.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>The worst country by a long way though is Ireland.<\/strong><\/u> 61kg of packaging is thrown away by the average Irish person, 9kg more than the second most prolific country,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/2401\/luxembourg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luxembourg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The least is created in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/2423\/bulgaria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bulgaria\u00a0<\/a>where a more acceptable 14kg is disposed of over the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each EU Citizen Creates 31kg Of Plastic-Waste Per Year (But The Irish Are Worst) Plastic packaging waste is a huge problem around the world. Despite efforts in some European countries such as plastic bottle deposit schemes or having to pay for plastic bags in the supermarket, Statista&#8217;s Martin Armstrong notes that the average EU citizen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[279,281,18119,4318],"class_list":["post-30114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-plastic-waste","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30115,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30114\/revisions\/30115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}