- a plastic milk jug takes 1 million years to degrade
- a plastic party cup takes 50-80 years to degrade --> on a monday morning after a party weekend i pass at least 20-30 on my walk to school in peoples yards
- american's go through 2.5 million single use plastic bottles EVERY HOUR
- american's use 30 billion bottles of single use water each year
- 500 billion - 1 trillion plastic bags are used each year
- they take 300 years to degrade
- they kill over 100 million animals each year
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how much have you contributed to this waste today?
2 comments:
Glad to see you're learning such awareness, it's too bad not everyone recycles since there's lots of uses for recycled plastic. Keep up the good work!
Sick.
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