This year 5 trillion plastic bags will be consumed. That’s 160,000 a second! Put one after another they would go around the world 7 times every hour and cover an area twice the size of France.|
Our plastic waste has created a gigantic “plastic soup” in the Pacific of up to 15 million square kilometers - almost the size of Russia
Every 2 hours we throw out enough stuff to fill the world's largest container ship with trash. That's 12 container ships every single day, and 4380 container ships in one year.
Every year we dump a massive 2.12 billion tons of waste. If all this waste was put on trucks they would go around the world 24 times
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"You!"
"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion"
Paulo Coelho Writer
"Completly biodegradable."
“(PLA) … has a smaller packaging footprint, it’s completely biodegradable … ”
Matt Kistler Former Senior Vice President - WalMart
"Bioplastics."
“Biodegradable plastics break down like wood.”
Taylor Weiss biophysicist at Arizona State University
"PLA-products!"
„PLA is an awesome development that offers amazing possibilities for replacing petroleum-based plastics."
Rocio JAIMES-GUTIERREZ geoscientist and journalist
"Bioplastics."
"bioplastics are a significant improvement."
Chandran Kartik professor at Columbia University
"Water and Air."
"Water and air, the two essential fluids, on which all life depends, have became global garbage cans"
Jean Jacques Cousteau Oceanographer, researcher and undersea explorer