69 million per day in the United States and about 22 billion each year
We as Americans throw away 35 million bottle caps every year. There are programs where you can recycle just the bottle caps.
1.5 million*12 months = 18 million bottles thrown away each year.
Because they are each recycled into different materials so if they were recycled together you would have plastic from both forms in one bottle and will make it harder or impossible for bio degradable bottles to decompose later on if thrown out.
2500000 Plastic bottles are thrown away each hour.
Each day, more that 3,000 nappies are thrown away.
As many tires to go around the globe 5 times.
90,000 cans are thrown away every minute by Americans ourselves.Sad, huh?
over 10,000 boat sails are thrown away, but this is usually due to damage.
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