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Hello there, my friends and welcome back.

My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to a headlines episode here on the

Sustainable Minimalist Podcast.

Headlines are quick to the point so that we can get the need to know

environmental news headlines that we may have missed in the past week and then get

on with our days. I have five stories for you today. Some of them are quick. Let's get into the quickest one of the day and also in my opinion the most interesting. It is all about the new study that was released on Wednesday of this week that revealed the world's biggest

plastic polluters. Every year companies produce more than 400 million metric tons of plastic.

What a number.

It's hard to get my head around that number.

It's just so big.

But just 56 companies are responsible for more than 50% of all the branded plastic waste around the world.

And now this new study, it was published in Science Advancesances to get the data thousands of volunteers around the world conducted

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