National-level regulation to ban/limit the use of plastic bags and styrofoam. Via statista.com Ocean debris worldwide kills at least 1 million seabirds and 100,000 mammals each year. Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide(USA: 380 billion / year). More than one million bags are used every minute. Ireland reduces plastic bag consumption by 90% (over 1 billion bags) between 2001 and 2011 by imposing a plastic bag tax of 37-cent. In France plastic bag tax has raised 10 million euros. Bag ban in China has saved 1 million tons of oil. Prior to the bag ban, Australians were using 7 billion bags a year.
This map has been created using The Global environmental stratification. The Global environmental stratification (GEnS), based on statistical clustering of bioclimate data (WorldClim). GEnS, consists of 125 strata, which have been aggregated into 18 global environmental zones (labeled A to R) based on the dendrogram. Interactive map >> Via www.vividmaps.com Related posts: - Find cities with similar climate 2050 - How global warming will impact 6000+ cities around the world?
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