Only 9% of plastic is actually recycled?

Plastic breaks down so small that it's in 90% of drinking water both bottled and tap world wide.

Plastic straws are really bad for the ocean. It’s estimated that we use over 500 million every day in America, and most of those end up in our oceans, polluting the water and killing marine life. 

About 8 million metric tons of plastic are thrown into the ocean annually. Of those, 236,000 tons are microplastics– tiny pieces of broken-down plastic smaller than your little fingernail.

Every minute, one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into our oceans.

By 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than there are fish.

Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as it takes to burn it.

The United States throws away $11.4 billion worth of recyclable containers and packaging every year.

Glass bottles take 4,000 years to decompose.

The majority of the 4 million tons of junk mail that Americans receive annually ends up in landfills.

A single American consumes roughly two trees annually in paper products.

Americans use 65 billion aluminum soda cans each year.

There is no limit to the number of times you can recycle an aluminum can.