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Some facts about the global issue that is plastic pollution and our solutions.
Plastic Facts
-Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.
-50 percent of the plastic we use, we use just once then throw away.
-Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the Earth four times.
-Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used Worldwide, thats more than one million every minute.
-It takes 500-100 years for plastic to break down, which means every piece of plastic ever made still exists somewhere on Earth.