Despite the popular mantra, our plastic is single use. How many people actually refill their plastic water bottle once it is empty? The answer, very few. We as a society are under this popular misconception, that if we recycle our bottles everything will be okay. But that is not true. Despite what has been beaten into our skulls, recycling...
It takes 22 gallons of water to make one pound of plastic which can approximately provide water for a family of four for two months.
It takes 17 oil million barrels a year to produce water bottles, which is about 20 gallons a barrel. The average home only uses 3650 gallons annuallyAmericans use about 50 billion plastic water bottles...
Plastic is a nonbiodegradable substance, which can take over 450 years to completely decompose. Plastic is made up of several key ingredients, petroleum (oil), water, hydrocarbons, and ethylene glycol, which is an organic compound. There are seven types of plastics all of which can be identified by three arrows that make a triangle with a number...