Production of single-use plastics is set to grow 30% in the next five years, fuelling their contribution to global warming and ocean pollution, researchers said on Tuesday as they published a list of companies that manufacture and fund throwaway plastic. The first "Plastic Waste Makers Index", published by the Australia-based philanthropic Minderoo Foundation, calculated that 20 companies - mainly energy and chemicals giants - are the source of half of the world's single-use plastic waste.
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