million tonnes vs million tons

Some examples from the web:

• Today, we produce about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste every year. We are seeing other worrying trends. Since the 1970s, the rate of plastic production has ...
• Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes. It now produces over 450 million tonnes.
• Mar 20, 2024 ... The 62 million tonnes of e-waste generated in 2022 would fill 1.55 million 40-tonne trucks, roughly enough trucks to form a bumper-tobumper line ...
• Jan 24, 2019 ... The world produces as much as 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) a year, weighing more than all of the ...
• 92 million tonnes of textiles waste is produced every year. Of the 100 billion garments produced each year, 92 million tonnes end up in landfills.
• Oct 21, 2021 ... Global plastic production has risen exponentially in the last decades. It now amounts to some 400 million tonnes per year.
• Jul 12, 2020 ... Around 85% of all textiles thrown away in the US – roughly 13 million tonnes in 2017 – are either dumped into landfill or burned.
• Plastic pollution in numbers. 8 million pieces of plastic pollution make their way into the ocean every day. (OSPAR, 2009); 12 million tonnes of plastic is ...
• The research indicates that there will be 43 million tonnes of blade waste worldwide by 2050 with China possessing 40% of the waste, Europe 25%, the United ...
• May 11, 2023 ... Black Sea Initiative exports top 30 million tonnes from Ukraine, as talks continue over renewal. A joint civilian inspection team comprising ...

Some examples from the web:

• Beringer Marine laid down a million tons of raw steel this year.
• The EU produces some seventy million tons of hazardous waste every year.
• One million tons are discarded in Europe every year.
• It's a million tons of shipping every week!
• And there are over 100 million tons of cement in these walls.
• The planet Earth produces around sixty-one million tons of tomatoes each year.
• Steel production reached an estimated 100 million tons last year.
• The total quantity collected in 2006 was 2 million tons.
• More than 10 million tons a day.
• The EU's aquaculture sector totals 1.3 million tons of fisheries products per year, representing some 3 billion euros.
• It is calculated that approximately 220 million tons of red mud is stored within the territory of the EU in various forms.
• And it amounts to something on the order of 3.5 to 5 million tons per year.
• I'm a smudge of excrement on a tissue... surging out to sea with a million tons of raw sewage.
• This farming today produces 15 million tons of seaweed, exported all over the world.
• Over 500 million tons of raw materials arrive in Shanghai every year by sea.
• But now we fish over 10 million tons of them per year.
• In total, 25 million tons of sea fish are raised every year, most of the production coming from Norway and Chile.
• Some estimates rank this illegal fishing at 26 million tons of catch, a quarter of the global total.
• Rotterdam now works 350 million tons of cargo annually... leaving Singapore a distant second.
• In 2007 between North America and Europe over 3.1 million tons of freight was carried, which made it one of the three main global transport routes.