More than 8,000 tonnes of plastic waste is generated worldwide every year, of which only 9% is recycled, 12% is incinerated and 79% accumulates in landfills.
Plastic is a material that takes a long time to decompose, as it is very slow to decompose in nature. By way of summary, we can clarify that, in reality, depending on the type of plastic, it takes between 100 and 1000 years to decompose, with an average of 500 years.