>> If you turned all of what’s been made into cling wrap, it would cover every inch of the globe. An interesting analogy but cling wrap is famously thin. Here

>> If you turned all of what’s been made into cling wrap, it would cover every inch of the globe. An interesting analogy but cling wrap is famously thin. Here is another perspective: Worldwide plastic production is estimated at just over 400,000,000 tons, or 400,000,000,000kg. Not all plastic is the same but its density is roughly equivalent to that of water (once all the air-filled plastics like Styrofoam are crushed down). A cubic kilometer of water weighs in at 1,000,000,000,000kg, roughly double the world plastic problem. (someone please check my math ;) So yes, you could wrap the entire planet in a layer of cling film. But you also could dispose of all the world's plastic in a single 1km x 1km landfill piled 400m deep, which would be barely a dot on the map and certainly a far better solution than dumping it in the oceans.