The international statistic of the year

Friday, December 21, 2018 - 10:20 in Mathematics & Economics

Ninety-one percent: the proportion of plastic waste that has never been recycled. That figure, determined by UC Santa Barbara marine scientist Roland Geyer and published last year in the journal Science Advances, is the winner of the Royal Statistical Society’s (RSS) 2018 International Statistic of the Year. Roland Geyer Credit: Matt Perko/UC Santa Barbara Of all the plastic every produced, worldwide — more […]

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