Facts

The average time a plastic bag is used is just 12 minutes....

The average person eats 70,000 microplastics each year....

Plastics kill 1.1 million seabirds and other wildlife every year....

In some parts of the world, like Kenya, using plastics is illegal....

40 % of plastic is used just once then tossed out....

Close to one million plastic beverage bottles are sold every minute....

73% of beach litter is plastics....

About 13 billion plastic bottles are disposed of every year....

Over 10 percent of household waste is plastic....

A plastic cup can take up to 80 years to decompose....

More than 100 million lbs of unsortable waste plastic currently under management.....

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