The phrase "amount of plastic needed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity of plastic required for a specific purpose or project.
Example: "Before we proceed with the packaging design, we need to calculate the amount of plastic needed to ensure sustainability."
Alternatives: "quantity of plastic required" or "volume of plastic necessary".
Now, however, it only adds supports where they are needed, reducing the amount of plastic needed.
Waste Management is even dabbling in the front end of waste production: In May it invested in a company that is developing a technology that aims to reduce the amount of plastic needed to make packaging, appliances and electronics.
We need to reduce the amount of plastic waste we produce; improve systems for waste collection and management; and reuse and recycle plastics whenever possible.
Similarly, while energy recovery or incineration plants are painted as avaricious monsters that constantly need feeding, there are limits to the amount of plastic they can burn.
While much has been made of the amount of plastic waste in our oceans, the new report argues that more research is needed on rivers and streams, considering that 80percentt of plastic found there ends up in the ocean.
Turning to those agricultural starting materials could help reduce the amount of petroleum needed to manufacture traditional plastics, which currently requires about 2 million barrels of oil per day (10percentt of total U.S. daily oil consumption).
These improvements are desperately needed: according to the United Nations Environment Programme, Vietnam ranks fourth globally in the amount of plastic waste dumped into the ocean, according to VN Express.
Supermarkets declare the amount of plastic packaging they use to Valpak, one of 28 commercial compliance companies, from which the amount they need to contribute towards recycling is calculated.
Right now, the team is using a kitchen blender to break down the plastics — hardly efficient for managing the growing amount of plastic waste from 3D printers — so they've launched a crowdfunding effort to raise $5,000 to buy a grinder, along with machinery they will need for the pilot program.
The estimated amount of plastic entering the ocean that the study uses is almost half a century old, and "we're desperately in need of a better estimate of how much plastic is entering the ocean annually".
