"CHOKE .... I am drowning!"

Have a look at these numbers:
Global plastic resin consumption: 562.2 billion pounds (prediction for 2010)
Percent of plastic recycled: <20%
I know dat during his cricket commentator days, the laugholic Navjot Siddhu deterred people from drawing inferences from a simple statistic, and he did that by comparing statistics to mini skirts. They hide the most important bits he would say. But the sad truth is; there can be no over stating about the statistics that I have noted. We are slowly drowning our planet in an ocean of junk!

However there is a glimmer of hope according to an article in the Economist. Apparently someone from the UK has come up with an idea to create a plywood equivalent from all the used plastic. They will I suppose, convert used plastic into fine grains and then those bits will be tightly packed between sheets of plastic to create the plywood substitute. The resulting product will be lighter, will not rot and will not even produce the sharp shards like regular plywood. No cons were listed but at least there is some hope on the horizon!

Link to the article: http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tm/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14255246&source=hptextfeature