In 2006, almost 50 billion plastic soda bottles were thrown away. That’s almost 80% of what was produced.

In 2006, the average American wasted almost 160 plastic bottles.

In 2004, almost 3.5 billion pounds of plastic bottles were wasted.

It takes 63 twenty-ounce plastic bottles to make a sweater.

There is a 30-foot bridge in New Baltimore, N.Y. that is strong enough to hold cars and is made out of 68,000 recycled milk jugs.

Americans toss out 14.4 million tons of plastic every year.

Americans recycle 1.67 billion pounds of plastic each year from soda bottles alone.

In manufacturing fiber from recycled plastic bottles, Wellman saves over 1/2 million barrels of oil and eliminates 400,000 tons of harmful air emissions annually.

The amount of petroleum saved annually by using post-consumer bottles over virgin materials in the EcoSpun process is enough to supply power to a city the size of Atlanta for an entire year.

In 2006, the average American wasted almost 160 plastic bottles.

In 2004, almost 3.5 billion pounds of plastic bottles were thrown out.

Two million plastic bottles are used in the U.S. every ten minutes and 51 billion plastic bottles go into landfills annually.

The 51 billion plastic bottles that go into U.S. landfills each year would wrap end-to-end around the earth 5 times.

It will take 700 years before plastic bottles in landfills start to decompose.

Less than 30% of plastic bottles in the U.S. are recycled.

 

Only 11 U.S. states have bottle deposit programs.

2,430 recycled 2-liter bottles saves a cubic yard of landfill space.

According to the EPA, recycling a pound of PET plastic bottles saves approximately 12,660,670 joules of energy.

The average U.S. household generated 42 pounds of PET plastic bottles in the year 2005.

It takes 14 twenty-ounce PET plastic bottles to make one square foot of carpet.