Our Plastic Planet
by Rebecca Jablonski
Two Hundred MILLION (200,000,000) TONS of plastic are produced every year.
All plastic products are made from petrochemicals. As the name implies, a main ingredient in petrochemicals is OIL.
The average American uses 290 pounds of plastic every year.
Every hour Americans use and discard 2.5 million plastic bottles, totaling 22 billion a year.
According to Greenpeace, of the 25 billion pounds of plastic the US produces each year just 1 billion is r…
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Posted on December 20, 2008 at 6:51pm — 1 Comment