It would be interesting to run it against a data set with
percentage of consumer packages in plastic wrapping.<p>csv data set of plastic production
<a href="https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution</a>
Interesting - I wonder what's responsible for seemingly large variance in the data set between 2005 and 2008, or if it's just an anomaly.<p>More importantly, hopefully this data can be used to increase pressure on governments to strengthen regulations against single-use plastic items.
I've got a plan based on self-replicating swarm robots. The basic idea is to collect oceanic trash and recycle it into more robots (to collect more trash to make more robots, &c.) The geometric increase should allow for a (relatively) small "kernel" to grow to handle the global problem.<p>Two primary recycling technologies seem promising: Thermal Depolymerization and Molten Salt Oxidation.<p>I've acquired two boats, one to serve as a base and the other to get to/from it, and I hope to begin collecting trash (in SF bay to start) this summer. :-) <i>Fingers crossed...</i>