Americans, we are told, generate more plastic waste both by weight and per person than any other country 42 million metric tons (MMT) yearly or 287 pounds per man, woman, and child, at least as of 2016.
'Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste' is a new 250-page consensus study that finds the U.S. produces more unreclaimed plastic waste than any other nation by several orders of magnitude.