{"id":2071,"date":"2022-03-10T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2023-03-28T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:25:07","slug":"o-4o-pais-do-mundo-que-mais-gera-lixo-plastico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/o-4o-pais-do-mundo-que-mais-gera-lixo-plastico\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil is the 4th country in the world that generates the most plastic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brazil, according to data from the World Bank, is the&nbsp;<strong>4th largest producer of plastic waste in the world<\/strong>, with 11.3 million tons, behind only the United States, China and India. Of this total, more than 10.3 million tons were collected (91%), but&nbsp;<strong>only 145 thousand tons (1,28%) are effectively recycled<\/strong>, that is, reprocessed in the production chain as a secondary product. This is one of the lowest rates in the survey and well below the global plastic recycling average, which is 9%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even partially passing through recycling plants, there are losses in the separation of types of plastics (for reasons such as being contaminated, being multilayer or of low value). In the end, 7.7 million tons of plastic end up in landfills. And another 2.4 million tons of plastic are discarded irregularly, without any kind of treatment, in open-air dumps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The survey carried out by WWF based on data from the World Bank analyzed the relationship with plastic in more than 200 countries, and pointed out that <strong>Brazil produces, on average, approximately 1 kilogram of plastic waste per inhabitant each week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d3nehc6yl9qzo4.cloudfront.net\/img\/original\/tabela_pais.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>WWF \/ World Bank (What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>*&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Total value of plastic waste discarded in solid urban waste, industrial waste, construction waste, electronic waste and agricultural waste, in the manufacture of products during one year.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil, according to data from the World Bank, is the 4th largest producer of plastic waste in the world, with 11.3 million tons, behind only the United States, China and India. Of this total, more than 10.3 million tons were collected (91%), but only 145 thousand tons (1.28%) are effectively recycled, that is, reprocessed in the production chain [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias","tag-brasil-e-o-4o-pais-do-mundo-que-mais-gera-lixo-plastico"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmp.ind.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}