• Most plastics will last from 200-400 years in a landfill before biodegrading.
• Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour, and most of them are thrown away.
• Recycling 1 ton of PET containers saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space.
• Recycling a pound of PET saves approximately 12,000 BTU's
• Fourteen 20 oz. PET bottles yield enough fiber for an extra large T-shirt
• It takes 14 20 oz. PET bottles to make one square foot of carpet
• It takes 63 20 oz. PET bottles to make a sweater
• It takes 85 20 oz. PET bottles to make enough fiberfill for a sleeping bag
• Each year, 352 million pounds of plastic are dumped into the sea.
• Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
• American throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year.
• Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.

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