That 9% is of all plastic produced between 1950 and 2015. > it’s estimated that in 2015, around 55 percent of global plastic waste was discarded, 25 percent wa

That 9% is of all plastic produced between 1950 and 2015. > it’s estimated that in 2015, around 55 percent of global plastic waste was discarded, 25 percent was incinerated, and 20 percent was recycled. Of the plastic waste produced between 1950 and 2015, only 9 percent was recycled. https://ourworldindata.org/faq-on-plastics#how-much-of-global-plastic-is-recycled https://ourworldindata.org/faq-on-plastics#how-much-of-globa...