PLASTICS

RECYCLING
FACTS
Plastic
Any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be
shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins,
resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins.

Wasted Resources
Americans use 4 million plastic bottles every hour.
But only 1 bottle out of 4 is recycled.

It takes a plastic bottle an average of

700 years to decompose in a landfill
700
years

Plastic is a
Valuable Resource.
Don’t Waste it!
It takes only 5 recycled two
Liter PET bottles to make enough
Fiberfill for a ski jacket.

If recycled, in just 10 days these bottles can be

used to create 74 million square feet of carpet.
(enough to carpet 29,600 homes!) or 16 million sweaters.

1,000

1,000,000
DISCLAIMER & SOURCES: All statistics and facts are derived from the following sources. ReCommunity is not
responsible for any discrepancies or factual changes that result over time.
SOURCES:http://www.consrv.ca.gov/index/news/2003%20News%20Releases/Pages/NR2003-13_Water_Bottle_Cr
isis.aspx; http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/; http://pages.uoregon.edu/recycle/PDFdocuments/factssources.PDF;
http://recyclingfacts.org; http://www.conservationconversations.com/2011/02/aluminum-recycling-facts/;
http://pages.uoregon.edu/recycle/TRIVIA.htmhttp://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/municipal/pubs/msw_2010_factsh
eet.pdf; http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/municipal/pubs/msw_2010_data_tables.pdf;
http://recycling-revolution.com/recyclingbenifits.html