Plastics

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Plastics

• By EC

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Plastic Bottles

• Recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve
  enough energy to light a 60W bulb for up to 6
  hours.
• It takes about 450 years just for one plastic
  bottle to break down in the ground!
• 9.1 billion plastic bottles were disposed of in
  2002 with only 360 million of them being recycled.

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Plastic Bags

• An average 323 plastic bags are taken into our
  homes every year and it takes 500 years to decay
  when sent to landfill.
• Plastic bags and other plastic rubbish thrown
  into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea
  creatures every year.
• Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion
  plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That comes
  out to over one million per minute. Billions end
  up as litter each year

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Recycling Plastics

• The energy saved by recycling 1 bottle will power
  a computer for 25 minutes.
• Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as
  burning it in an incinerator.
• The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle
  will keep a light bulb burning for 4 hours.

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The End
Recycle your Plastics