16/08/2010 - Plastic Oceans

SnT's will be shortly working on a new project: Plastic Oceans.

Encouraging all to go check out the website, some scary facts.

An important topic, very much worth bringing to peoples attention.

Will keep you all updated. Weblink:
http://www.plasticoceans.net/

- We are currently producing 300 million tonnes of plastic per year – about half of this will be used just once and thrown away.
- Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. More than one million bags are used every minute.
- A plastic bag has an average “working life” of 15 minutes.
- In the US alone, 60 million plastic bottles are thrown away every day.
- Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.

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