The purpose of The Recycling Movement is to bring to light not only those boring facts that everyone already knows about recycling, but to also make people aware of other facts and why recycling is a very important concept.
For one thing, did you know that it takes 450 years for a single plastic bottle to break down, and sometimes up to 1000 years? Just one plastic bottle...and it won't even fully degrade in our lifetimes. Take into account that, according to an article on treehugger.com, the United States alone uses 1500 plastic bottles per second. If you take that by 60, you have the whopping number of 90000 plastic bottles a minute. Need I go on? And of the 50 billion bottles purchased a year, about 80% still end up in landfills.
What's 40 billion plastic bottles by 450-1000 years...?
I'll let you do the math.
The idea is recycle your recyclables. They won't degrade naturally, so save the earth the trouble and reuse them.
Plastic bottles aren't our only problems, either.
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