discovering ingredients from the amazon and can local delicacies save the rain forests. but first we had to china where many people are drowning in trash from around the globe. in. plastic has become a seemingly unavoidable feature of our planet. in one thousand nine hundred fifty we produced around one point five million tonnes of it since then global plastic production has skyrocketed in two thousand and sixteen it totaled about three hundred search and five million tons. around half of the plastic produced is disposable products like bottles plastic bags and cups where does it all end up. much ends up in landfills or in the environment plastic waste is also sold ships to countries like china in two thousand and sixteen china received one point six million tons of plastic rubbish. from the e.u.