What I Know About Plastic

What I Know About Plastic

• Our school polar fleeces are made out of plastic.
• plastic is bad for the environment.
• plastic is made of long strands of carbon.
• Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
• Over 1600 businesses are involved in recycling post-customer plastics.
• Only around 27% of plastic bottles are recycled.
• Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year.
• At least 90 percent of the price of a bottle of water is for things other than the water itself, like bottling, packaging, shipping and marketing.
• For every 1 ton of plastic that is recycled we save the equivalent of 2 people’s energy use for 1 year, the amount of water used by 1 person in 2 month’s time and almost 2000 pounds of oil.