discovering ingredients from the amas 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. and. 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 totals 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 shipped to countries like china in two thousand and sixteen china received one point six million tons of plastic rubbish. from the e.u.
lingering. flood warnings and watches are up from the gulf coast and florida panhandle all the way into south carolina. floodwaters receding there but with more rain in the forecast they may rise yet again. tracking it all for us is chad myers. what do you have? anderson, when you have a stationary front, like a stationary bike, things don t move. these storms aren t going anywhere. so what is raining now was raining an hour ago and what was raining this weekend is pretty much still raining at this point. look at these five-day rainfall foet t totals. that is a beach. not much of a beach vacation. panama city, popular place, ten inches of rainfall over the weekend. everywhere that you see red, that s six inches. at purple higher than that, and the ten-inch bulls eyes, macon,