Your toothbrush. A bottle of juice. Your headphones or favorite pen. The wrapper on a cereal bar. You probably use or touch plastic dozens of times each day.
You’re not alone. For years, people have sipped from plastic straws and carried groceries in plastic bags without a second thought. But nearly every bit of the plastic we use gets thrown away. In fact, in the time it takes to read this sentence, Americans will have tossed more than 20,000 pounds of plastic. All that waste is causing major problems for the planet.
That’s why people, companies, and even whole cities around the U.S. are working to reduce plastic usage. But will those efforts be enough?
Your toothbrush. A bottle of juice. Your headphones or favorite pen. The wrapper on a cereal bar. You probably use or touch plastic dozens of times each day.
You’re not alone. For years, people have sipped from plastic straws and carried groceries in plastic bags without a second thought. But nearly every bit of the plastic we use gets thrown away. In fact, in the time it takes to read this sentence, Americans will have tossed more than 20,000 pounds of plastic. All that waste is causing major problems for the planet.
That’s why people, companies, and even whole cities around the U.S. are working to reduce plastic usage. But will those efforts be enough?