Cigarette butts and styrofoam appear in second and third places among the 15 most found items, which altogether represent 80.3 percent of the waste on the Brazilian coast.
In Brazil, 79 million tons of urban solid waste were produced I 2018—an increase of less than one percent from the previous year. Of this total, 92 percent (72.7 million) were was collected—up 1.66 percent against 2017.
The amount of waste sent to garbage dump saw an increase for the second consecutive year in Brazil. A survey released Friday (Sep.
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