Key findings of the report:
- 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.
- In China, plastic films and bags are the most used type of packaged plastic, followed by PET bottles and plastic cups and other containers.
- Around 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.
