Here are some quick facts about plastic and its usage. Hopefully it will get you thinking about how harmful plastic is for the environment.
• The time it takes for different plastics to break down is quite astonishing: a plastic bottle takes 450 years while a plastic cup can take anywhere between 50 and 80 years.
• Every year, plastics that get into water systems such as oceans and rivers kill as many as one million sea creatures
• Which is actually quite unsurprising considering 15000 tons of plastic waste (buoys, nets etc) is dumped in the ocean from the boats that make up the fishing industry
• If a ton of plastic bottles is recycled, 1.5 tons of carbon is saved from being emitted
• One of the most surprising and most shocking things about plastic is that most plastic that has ever been made is still in existence
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