The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.

This quantity comes from a time series measurement and the most recent value (2010) is reported.


Value:		(1.2 ± 0.18) × 10¹¹ kg / yr see this value in other units This is equivalent to... (1.2 ± 0.18) × 10⁸ t / yr
HuID:		55989
Relevant Year(s):		2010
Summary:		This value is an estimate of the annual addition to plastic stocks. Stocks are the total in use materials that have not gone to waste or recycling.
Method:		This value comes from a Material Inputs, Stocks, and Outputs (MISO) model of global material production and flow. Extraction of materials, manufacturing inputs and losses, global trade, and product lifetimes are all included in the model to determine global stock of materials. This value is reported as net addition to stocks (ie production to end of life). The uncertainty range represents three standard deviations in the data from 10³ Monte Carlo runs of their model.
Source:		Krausmann, F., Wiedenhofer, D., Lauk, C., Haas, W., Tanikawa, H., Fishman, T., Miatto, A., Schandl, H., Haberl, H. Global socioeconomic material stocks rise 23-fold over the 20th century and require half of annual resource use. PNAS (2017)
Dataset:		global net addition to plastic stocks (Plastics_net.csv) global resolution
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Added By:		rbanks