Waste Facts
20th September 2018
in News
Plastics
- 20 times more plastic is made and used today than it was 50 years ago
- Plastic can take up to 500 years to fully decompose; we just don’t know..
- The average household in the UK use 480 plastic bottles each year, with only 270 being recycled and means 44% are being sent to landfill.
- Americans throw away 2,500,000 plastic bottles per hour on average.
makes you think doesn’t it?
