Tackling plastic is a tangled mess…

The enormity of the challenge posed by plastic pollution is almost too much to grasp. At the risk of drowning readers in incomprehensible figures, here are some stats: plastic production has more than doubled since the turn of the century to an eye-watering 460 million tonnes each year – a figure that is predicted to double again by 2040. Over the last 70 years more than 10 billion tonnes of plastic have been produced – more than half of which has been made in the last two decades.