Japan's plastic packaging is out of control and here's why

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Now that everyone is doing their best to be eco-friendly, in comparison, it hardly seems like Japan is trying, but is that really true? And why do they wrap everything in plastic anyway?

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Kurzgesagt: Plastic pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7IzU2VJIQ&t=1s


Sources:

Single strawberry blog
https://medium.com/social-innovation-japan/7-surprising-facts-about-plastic-in-japan-f6920cc8e621
Stats and graph:
https://www.statista.com/chart/17564/annual-per-capita-production-of-plastic-by-region/?fbclid=IwAR1Izt6jODQMuzqYlaIR-dnn1FKFBcYzwrm1F8xAhJtmm_PCnqtFQlAiy2I
Burning of plastic:
https://recyclinginternational.com/business/japan-environment-minister-looks-to-less-waste-incineration/
Convenience store bags:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-to-start-plastic-bag-fee-before-Tokyo-Olympics
967 bags per second:
http://office-frt.com/591/
70% incinerated
https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/24796/3/1/1
PET bottle recycling graph
http://www.petbottle-rec.gr.jp/data/comparison.html
Exporting trash:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/18/national/plastic-waste-piling-japan-chinese-import-ban/#.XpQXK1MzbjC
Plastic in the ocean stats
https://www.earthday.org/fact-sheet-plastics-in-the-ocean/
Indonesia’s plastic problem
https://theaseanpost.com/article/indonesias-plastic-waste-problem
Kurzgesagt Plastic pollution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7IzU2VJIQ
Wrapping apart of the product
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13266062/ns/world_news-world_environment/t/japan-its-bag-thats-problem/#.XpggmVMzbj

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