Plastic industry releases 2.5X as much greenhouse gases as airlines

The airline industry is notorious for dumping thousands of tons of greenhouse gases into Earth's atmosphere each year, but a new study finds the plastics industry is multiple times worse.

Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory uncovered the plastic industry releases equivalent of 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year - compared to the airline industry's 1 billion tons.

Most of the news about plastic concerns garbage, which and , but plastic creates astounding amounts of atmosphere-warming gases long before it's ever even used, the scientists found

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