DescriptionCarbon cycle with the added effect of plastic.jpg
English: Carbon cycle with the added effect of plastic
(a) The carbon cycle (redrawn using content from NASA Earth Observatory) with plastic production shown as a net flux out of fossil carbon. Carbon reservoirs are italicized in white (GT), natural fluxes are in yellow (GT/yr), and anthropogenic fluxes are in red (GT/yr). Boxes show how plastic may contribute to additional carbon movement. (b) The plastic cycle with major parameters shown. Reservoirs are italicized in white (megatonnes, MT), fluxes are in yellow (MT/yr), and important rates are shown in black (MT/yr). *0.9 GT of greenhouse gases (GHGs) were estimated to have been emitted from plastic production and incineration in 2019 (Center for International Environmental Law, 2019). **4–12 MT plastic/year is input from coastal regions into the ocean; this estimate is for the year 2010 and is taken from Jambeck et al. (2015). ***0.1–0.2 MT plastic is for microplastics only and taken from van Sebille et al. (2015).
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