Plastic Recycling Facts

Americans use 2,500,000
plastic bottles every hour!

Most of them are thrown
away!

Plastic bags and other
plastic garbage thrown
into the ocean kill as many
as 1,000,000 sea creatures
every year!

Recycling plastic saves
twice as much energy as
burning it in an
incinerator.

Americans throw away
25,000,000,000 Styrofoam
coffee cups every year.