Correction: Britain-Statistic of the Year story

LONDON (AP) — In a story Dec. 18 about the international statistic of the year, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a report about the proportion of plastic waste that has never been recycled was a U.N. report. The report was based on a study conducted for the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and published in Science Advances.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Scary statistic: 90.5 percent of plastic is not recycled
The burgeoning crisis in plastic