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If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the NFL, Apple and Microsoft

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis
If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the NFL, Apple and MicrosoftA plastic waste dump. Mohameed Abdulraheem/shutterstock.com

This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year.

On Dec. 18, we announced the winner: 90.5 percent, the amount of plastic that has never been recycled. Okay – but why is that such a big deal?

Much like Oxford...

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