80 procent of plastic bottles are not recycled, and 20 procent of the bottled water is actually tap water.
Plastic bottles are responsible for one of the ocean’s most pressing environmental problems.
60 million water bottles are thrown away each day!
There are many places in the world where plastic bottles are the only way of safely transporting water, where one bottle is re-used countless times. This doesn’t contribute to the pollution problem in the world’s oceans at all compared to the incredible waste that we see in the First World.
One of the most obvious impacts of plastic bottles is what happens after the water has been consumed. For every six plastic bottles bought, only one is recycled – five are thrown away to eventually end up in landfills, or the ocean.
Several places around in the world, you can find these landfills, where all kinds of garbage is thrown.
It’s a shame that it has come to this!
Even as recently as one generation ago, the culture of disposable goods was much smaller than it currently is. Glass bottles, re-usable containers and other recyclable packaging materials were the norm, and much more of a household’s waste could be easily recycled. While plastics can indeed be recycled, they degrade in quality through the recycling process, until eventually
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