China just handed the world a 111-million-ton trash problem

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© Hong Wu/Getty Images Few people consider used plastic to be a valuable global commodity. Yet China has imported 106 million tons of old bags, bottles, wrappers and containers worth $57.6 billion since 1992, the first year it disclosed data. So when the country announced last year that it finally had enough of everybody else's junk, governments the world over knew they had a problem. They just didn’t know exactly how large it was.
Now they know. By 2030, an estimated 111 million metric tons of used plastic will need to be buried or recycled somewhere else—or not manufactured at all. That's the conclusion of a new analysis of UN global trade data by University of Georgia researchers.
Everyone's bottles, bags and food packages add up. Factories have churned out a cumulative 8.3 billion metric tons of new plastic as of 2017, the same Georgia team reported last year. Even 1 million metric tons, the scale that this material trafficks in every year, is hard to visualize in the abstract. It's 621,000 Tesla Model 3s. It's 39 million bushels of corn kernels. The world’s 700 million iPhones make up roughly a tenth of a million metric tons.
Nearly four-fifths of all that plastic has been thrown into landfills or the environment. A tenth of it has been burned. Several million tons reach oceans every year, sullying beaches and poisoning vast reaches of the northern Pacific. Just 9 percent of the total plastic ever generated has been recycled. China took in just over half the annual total in 2016, or 7.4 million metric tons.
As the industry matured and the negative effects on public health and the environment became clear, China got more selective about the materials it was willing to buy. A "Green Fence" law enacted in 2013 kept out materials mixed with food, metals or other contaminants. Exports consequently dropped off from 2012 to 2013, a trend that continued until last year, when the world's biggest buyer warned that its scrap plastic purchases would stop altogether.
Other nations, such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia, have taken in more plastic, although with an appetite smaller than China’s. Vietnam recently suspended imports as ships clogged its ports. 
The world’s plastic problem has been building for decades. Since mass production began in the early 1950s, annual output has grown from about 2 million tons to 322 million produced in 2015, the authors said. Current production rates are exceeding our ability to dispose of the stuff effectively—and supply is expected only to grow. “Without bold new ideas and management strategies, current recycling rates will no longer be met, and ambitious goals and timelines for future recycling growth will be insurmountable,” they wrote.
Related gallery: Families around the world join war on plastic (provided by Reuters)

Families around the world join war on plastic

China just handed the world a 111-million-ton trash problem

Eric Roston

Brazilian Spring 

© Hong Wu/Getty Images Few people consider used plastic to be a valuable global commodity. Yet China has imported 106 million tons of old bags, bottles, wrappers and containers worth $57.6 billion since 1992, the first year it disclosed data. So when the country announced last year that it finally had enough of everybody else's junk, governments the world over knew they had a problem. They just didn’t know exactly how large it was.
Now they know. By 2030, an estimated 111 million metric tons of used plastic will need to be buried or recycled somewhere else—or not manufactured at all. That's the conclusion of a new analysis of UN global trade data by University of Georgia researchers.
Everyone's bottles, bags and food packages add up. Factories have churned out a cumulative 8.3 billion metric tons of new plastic as of 2017, the same Georgia team reported last year. Even 1 million metric tons, the scale that this material trafficks in every year, is hard to visualize in the abstract. It's 621,000 Tesla Model 3s. It's 39 million bushels of corn kernels. The world’s 700 million iPhones make up roughly a tenth of a million metric tons.
Nearly four-fifths of all that plastic has been thrown into landfills or the environment. A tenth of it has been burned. Several million tons reach oceans every year, sullying beaches and poisoning vast reaches of the northern Pacific. Just 9 percent of the total plastic ever generated has been recycled. China took in just over half the annual total in 2016, or 7.4 million metric tons.
As the industry matured and the negative effects on public health and the environment became clear, China got more selective about the materials it was willing to buy. A "Green Fence" law enacted in 2013 kept out materials mixed with food, metals or other contaminants. Exports consequently dropped off from 2012 to 2013, a trend that continued until last year, when the world's biggest buyer warned that its scrap plastic purchases would stop altogether.
Other nations, such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia, have taken in more plastic, although with an appetite smaller than China’s. Vietnam recently suspended imports as ships clogged its ports. 
The world’s plastic problem has been building for decades. Since mass production began in the early 1950s, annual output has grown from about 2 million tons to 322 million produced in 2015, the authors said. Current production rates are exceeding our ability to dispose of the stuff effectively—and supply is expected only to grow. “Without bold new ideas and management strategies, current recycling rates will no longer be met, and ambitious goals and timelines for future recycling growth will be insurmountable,” they wrote.
Related gallery: Families around the world join war on plastic (provided by Reuters)

Families around the world join war on plastic

China just handed the world a 111-million-ton trash problem

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© Hong Wu/Getty Images Few people consider used plastic to be a valuable global commodity. Yet China has imported 106 million tons of old bags, bottles, wrappers and containers worth $57.6 billion since 1992, the first year it disclosed data. So when the country announced last year that it finally had enough of everybody else's junk, governments the world over knew they had a problem. They just didn’t know exactly how large it was.
Now they know. By 2030, an estimated 111 million metric tons of used plastic will need to be buried or recycled somewhere else—or not manufactured at all. That's the conclusion of a new analysis of UN global trade data by University of Georgia researchers.
Everyone's bottles, bags and food packages add up. Factories have churned out a cumulative 8.3 billion metric tons of new plastic as of 2017, the same Georgia team reported last year. Even 1 million metric tons, the scale that this material trafficks in every year, is hard to visualize in the abstract. It's 621,000 Tesla Model 3s. It's 39 million bushels of corn kernels. The world’s 700 million iPhones make up roughly a tenth of a million metric tons.
Nearly four-fifths of all that plastic has been thrown into landfills or the environment. A tenth of it has been burned. Several million tons reach oceans every year, sullying beaches and poisoning vast reaches of the northern Pacific. Just 9 percent of the total plastic ever generated has been recycled. China took in just over half the annual total in 2016, or 7.4 million metric tons.
As the industry matured and the negative effects on public health and the environment became clear, China got more selective about the materials it was willing to buy. A "Green Fence" law enacted in 2013 kept out materials mixed with food, metals or other contaminants. Exports consequently dropped off from 2012 to 2013, a trend that continued until last year, when the world's biggest buyer warned that its scrap plastic purchases would stop altogether.
Other nations, such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia, have taken in more plastic, although with an appetite smaller than China’s. Vietnam recently suspended imports as ships clogged its ports. 
The world’s plastic problem has been building for decades. Since mass production began in the early 1950s, annual output has grown from about 2 million tons to 322 million produced in 2015, the authors said. Current production rates are exceeding our ability to dispose of the stuff effectively—and supply is expected only to grow. “Without bold new ideas and management strategies, current recycling rates will no longer be met, and ambitious goals and timelines for future recycling growth will be insurmountable,” they wrote.
Related gallery: Families around the world join war on plastic (provided by Reuters)

Families around the world join war on plastic

China just handed the world a 111-million-ton trash problem

Eric Roston

1 day ago

Brazilian Spring that never arrived

Is Mexico's presidential frontrunner a dangerous populist or a reformer?

© Hong Wu/Getty Images Few people consider used plastic to be a valuable global commodity. Yet China has imported 106 million tons of old bags, bottles, wrappers and containers worth $57.6 billion since 1992, the first year it disclosed data. So when the country announced last year that it finally had enough of everybody else's junk, governments the world over knew they had a problem. They just didn’t know exactly how large it was.
Now they know. By 2030, an estimated 111 million metric tons of used plastic will need to be buried or recycled somewhere else—or not manufactured at all. That's the conclusion of a new analysis of UN global trade data by University of Georgia researchers.
Everyone's bottles, bags and food packages add up. Factories have churned out a cumulative 8.3 billion metric tons of new plastic as of 2017, the same Georgia team reported last year. Even 1 million metric tons, the scale that this material trafficks in every year, is hard to visualize in the abstract. It's 621,000 Tesla Model 3s. It's 39 million bushels of corn kernels. The world’s 700 million iPhones make up roughly a tenth of a million metric tons.
Nearly four-fifths of all that plastic has been thrown into landfills or the environment. A tenth of it has been burned. Several million tons reach oceans every year, sullying beaches and poisoning vast reaches of the northern Pacific. Just 9 percent of the total plastic ever generated has been recycled. China took in just over half the annual total in 2016, or 7.4 million metric tons.
As the industry matured and the negative effects on public health and the environment became clear, China got more selective about the materials it was willing to buy. A "Green Fence" law enacted in 2013 kept out materials mixed with food, metals or other contaminants. Exports consequently dropped off from 2012 to 2013, a trend that continued until last year, when the world's biggest buyer warned that its scrap plastic purchases would stop altogether.
Other nations, such as India, Vietnam and Malaysia, have taken in more plastic, although with an appetite smaller than China’s. Vietnam recently suspended imports as ships clogged its ports. 
The world’s plastic problem has been building for decades. Since mass production began in the early 1950s, annual output has grown from about 2 million tons to 322 million produced in 2015, the authors said. Current production rates are exceeding our ability to dispose of the stuff effectively—and supply is expected only to grow. “Without bold new ideas and management strategies, current recycling rates will no longer be met, and ambitious goals and timelines for future recycling growth will be insurmountable,” they wrote.
Related gallery: Families around the world join war on plastic (provided by Reuters)

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Man shares unbelievable video of the condition of a school in Edo state 

A Nigerian man has shared a video on social media to show the unbelievable state of a primary school in Edo state. The man who was furious about the state of the school called on the government to do something about its damaged infrastructure. The man identified as Pharez Okpere shared the video on his Facebook page. He explained that all the classes inside the school has incomplete roofs. Okpere noted that due to the fact that there were no roofs inside the classes, the students were forced to find shelter outside their classrooms because rain was falling into the classrooms through the incomplete roofs. According to the man who had gone to park his car inside the school compound, he had thought compound was that of an abandoned school



. Man shares unbelievable video of the condition of a school in Edo state Photo source: Facebook user Pharez Okpere 

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How to improve reactions on PR campaigns 

The general idea behind putting up PR campaigns is to get across to the advertiser’s target audience; in a bid to help advertisers get more out of their sponsored posts, we had a little chat with PR Executive of NAIJ.com, Mitchelle Okuku, to give us some important tips that could guide advertisers on their quest to get more reactions from our readers. 



Would you say PR is really getting the audience involved in communication with the brand nowadays? From my experience, I would say that getting readers’ interest these days takes way more than it used to and only those who are paying close attention to this fact are still getting desired results. I did a careful analysis of 1,045 PR campaigns published on NAIJ.com in 2017 and the results showed that sponsored articles attracted an average of 11,000 views. Out of the 1,045 articles posted, most of them exceeded this average figure greatly, while some others fell short of expectations. - Do these successful articles have anything in common? Yes, successful PR articles have similar features. A lot of advertisers have discovered that native advertising is the way to go and they are taking advantage of this fact. There are also some general tips that can help advertisers improve the performance of their articles and attract readers’ attention: Keep your articles short and simple. There is really no need to bore readers with unnecessarily long articles, so make your campaigns brief but meaningful with key points highlighted. Also make it easy to understand and use simple terms that are easy to remember. Press releases are generally boring to most readers, as people enjoy to read stories, not emotionless facts. It is better to mix things up a little and actually look at the article from your reader’s point of view. Times are changing and readers are looking for some additional value, getting them interested will require more than the usual. Be honest and authentic. Being honest and authentic is a good way to keep your readers interested. Take things up a notch and actually teach them something real and useful while trying to pass information about your products or services. Follow the editorial format of the platform. A lot of sponsored articles end up performing way less than regular articles on a platform because most readers can tell it is sponsored at first glance. However, these posts can easily outperform editorial articles if they follow the editorial format of the page and ensure readers are not getting less value just because a post is sponsored. - What do you think is the best way to get the most reactions from readers? My biggest advice is – ‘move your PR articles closer to native advertising’! It is not enough to just talk about goods and services; take time to think about topics that are relevant to your product. It is easier for readers to remember your campaign if it can be related to activities they encounter daily. Entertain them, keep them engaged with interesting details or give answers to questions they probably have. You may be surprised how much difference this would make. 

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Nigerians react to Super Eagles disappointing defeat to Croatia 


- An own goal from Etebo and a spot kick from Luka Modric powered Croatia to a 2-0 victory over Nigeria - The Eagles will face Iceland in their next Group C game and they will hope to bounce back to winning ways Nigeria suffered a disappointing start to their 2018 FIFA World Cup campaign in Kaliningrad on Saturday, June 16. The Super Eagles were beaten 2-0 by Croatia in the second Group C encounter courtesy of an own goal from Oghenekaro Etebo in the first half and a spot kick from Luka Modric in the second half of the match. With this victory, the Croats are now topping the table with massive three points and two goals, while coach Gernot Rohr's men are at the base of the log. READ ALSO: Super Eagles star Victor Moses confident of Nigeria's Chances against Croatia Argentina and Iceland occupy second and third positions respectively after sharing spoils in the first Group C encounter earlier in the day, as Sergio Aguero's goal got cancelled Alfred Finnbogason. The three-time African champions were decent in the performance in the game but weren't purposeful enough upfront as they only managed two shots on target - none of which hit the target. 

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4 Super Eagles players who were woeful against Croatia 
Nigeria's Super Eagles were a shadow of themselves in their opening Group D encounter against Croatia at the Kaliningrad Arena on Saturday. The three-time African Champions were beaten 2-0 by the Croats with goals from Oghenekaro Etebo and and Luka Modric powering the European team to victory. It will be recalled that Gernot Rohr's men booked their ticket in this year's global football showpiece, but their performance yesterday night showed that Nigeria were tactically unfit for their opponent. READ ALSO: Mikel Obi's partner Olga sends him an encouraging message after losing to Croatia However, NAIJ.com has taken time to highlight 4 players that were disappointing for the national team in that fixture. Here are the four players that disappointed in the Super Eagles 2-0 defeat to Croatia 1. Victor Moses The Chelsea wing back once again showed reasons coach Gernot Rohr should not play him in the offensive role in the next game. Since the arrival of Antonio Conte to the Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2016, the 27-yea-old has been converted to a full back. Meanwhile, playing for Nigeria is a different ball game as he seem to big for the coaches to control - hence, he is played as an attacker. Moses almost was unable to deliver a cross successfully in the game, as his crosses were either too long or blocked by the wall. PAY ATTENTION: Become a member of the leading sports Facebook group 'Naija Football Fan Zone' He has lost his dribbling ability, yet he was forcing it and that made him concede possession on too many occasions. The former Wigan Athletic, Liverpool and Stoke City striker fell too many times on the pitch waiting on the match officials to rule in his favour. 2. Odion Ighalo The China based striker seemed too heavy and non effective all through his time on the pitch as he was unable to record a single shot on target. He looked like he was being played out of his usual position as the Croatian defenders marked him out of making any contact with the ball in the danger zone. Ighalo should have been taken out at half time having played the first 45 minutes without making an impact for the team. PAY ATTENTION: Click on link to get World Cup standings on NAIJ.com 3. John Obi Mikel The Tianjin Teda midfielder played in front of Oghenekaro Etebo and Wilfred Ndidi in the attacking midfield position. He is not an outright offensive player having played almost 10 years at Chelsea as a defensive midfielder. The 2013 African Cup of Nations winning player conceded too many possessions and his recovery rate was very poor. And then, he wasn't too much of a leader he was expected to be, as he was unable to motivate his teammates to fight a little harder after conceding those two goals in the game. PAY ATTENTION: Click on link to get World Cup fixtures on NAIJ.com 4. Wilfred Ndidi The Leicester City rock solid defensive midfielder wasn't at his best for the Super Eagles in that defeat. It is understandable that he recently just returned to full fitness having being sidelined for a number of weeks.

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