World will have 710M tons of plastic pollution by 2040 despite efforts to cut waste, study says

If the world embarked on an immediate and globally-coordinated effort to reduce our plastic consumption, there would still be an estimated 710 million metric tons of plastic that will pollute the environment by 2040, new research has found.

source https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/world/plastic-pollution-2040-study-intl-hnk/index.html