'Deluge of plastic waste': US is world's biggest plastic polluter

At 42m metric tons of plastic waste a year, the US generates more waste than all EU countries combinedThe US is the world's biggest culprit in generating plastic waste and the country urgently needs a new strategy to curb the vast amount of plastic that ends up in the oceans, a new report submitted to the federal government has found.The advent of cheap, versatile plastics has created "a global scale deluge of plastic waste seemingly everywhere we look", the report states, with the US a leading contributor of disposable plastics that ends up entangling and choking marine life, harming ecosystems and bringing harmful pollution up through the food chain. Continue reading...