Facts About Plastic

 Interesting Facts About Plastic

★ Plastic needs about 450 years just to start decomposing. Then, it takes another 50-80 years to decompose completely.

★ That means that every single produced piece of plastic has not decomposed yet.

★ 90% of the price you pay for the bottled water goes to the plastic bottle, while the water cost you only 10% of the money you give. 

★ 24 million gallons of oil are needed for producing of billion plastic bottles.

★ Only 25 recycled bottles are enough to make one adult’s fleece jacket. 

★ Sad but true, the worldwide fishing industry throws huge amounts of plastic garbage in the oceans. Amazing 150,000 tons go into the water every year, including packaging, plastic nets, lines and buoys. 

★ This thrash causes death of many animals in the seas, which mistake the garbage for food. Estimations say that the number of killed animals is over one million.

★ Over 13 billion of plastic bags are produced every year, which are about 300 per adult

★ Recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve enough energy to light a 60W bulb for up to 6 hours. 

★ Recycling plastics can save up to 2/3 of the needed energy for producing plastic from raw materials.

★ Surveys show that more than 90 percent of consumers reuse their plastic bags at least once for things like wastebasket

★ There are many countries which have banned or restricted the use of plastic bags. Australia, China, Austria, Bangladesh, Ireland and several European Union countries are among them.