BBC: Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic wasteBy BBC. Published May 18, 2021 at 9:26 pm A girl looks on as she sits next to a pile of used plastic bottles in a recycling factory in Dhaka on May 5, 2021. Photo by AFPJust 20 companies are the source of more than half of all the single-use plastic items thrown away globally.Read more here.