We use 5 trillion plastic bags… per year! That’s 160,000 a second! And over 700 a year for every single person on the planet. We can do better than that. See plastic bags used per year in real time below.
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Plastic Recycling Facts and Figures
By Rick LeBlanc Updated October 21, 2018 Plastic recycling has become an increasingly important sector of recycling but it would be hard to declare plastic recycling as a success story from an environmental perspective, with less than 10% of generation from the U.S. Municipal solid Waste stream being recycled, as well considering the very serious global […]