6.0 Facts about water bottles & plastic

For my project I want to display information specifically open data that can be gather from the internet including facts about water bottles such as how they are made and what materials, how long they take to degrade and more.
  • Americans buy an estimated 29.8 billion plastic water bottles every year.(Montgomeryschoolsmd.org, 2018) 
  •  Plastic water bottles can take between 400 and 1,000 years to decompose. (Ellsbury, 2018)
  • It requires 3 times the amount of water to produce a plastic bottle than it does to fill it. (Ellsbury, 2018)
  • It takes 17 million barrels of oil to produce plastic bottles yearly. This could fuel 1 million cars for a year. (Montgomeryschoolsmd.org, 2018) 
  • 80% of our bottles are not recycled – they end up in the landfill or are incinerated with other regular trash. (Montgomeryschoolsmd.org, 2018)
  • All plastic that is used for food and drink is brand new plastic – for health reasons we cannot use recycled plastic.  (Montgomeryschoolsmd.org, 2018)
  • More than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) are released in the production of plastic bottles. (Montgomeryschoolsmd.org, 2018)
  • A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute - which breaks down to 20,000 plastic bottles a second - and that number will jump another 20% by 2021. (Docs and Docs, 2018)
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(Docs and Docs, 2018)

 The most shocking aspect of these facts are that they are so easily accessible yet for the average person, they are completely unaware and uneducated on the scale of the issue. Therefore I believe my website will act as a great source of information regarding plastic pollution, and specifically educate on the life cycle of a plastic bottle all with the use of data and statistics along the way to give a idea of the large scale problem we face.

 It is not that we should be targeting single use consumer culture, and blaming consumers and households for not recycling but rather corporations that mass produce these items in the first place with no regard for how they are disposed of after.

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