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The numbers here are so staggering, I thought they had to be wrong. How many plastic bottles can humans possibly throw away in total?

How wrong my assumption seems to be. In 2017, we created over 1 million plastic bottles a minute [0], and in 2018 we produced more plastic by weight[1] than the human population of the world[2].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/26/million-p...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/282732/global-production...

[2] https://www.livescience.com/36470-human-population-weight.ht....



Went on a small get away with in-laws last week. They probably went through 200 bottles of water over 7 days. I would say at any given time there were 10 or so half full around the house. I was the only one who was filling up a metal bottle in the sink. Very disheartening to see.




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