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Creating awareness of our
plastic consumption
Plastic Waste
166 Bottles of water
consumed by the average
American each year.
• 8 out of 10 The number
of unrecycled plastic
water bottles that wind up
in landfills or incinerators
• 1,000 The estimated
number of years required
for a plastic water bottle
to decompose
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Plastic Pollution!
• Bottled Water le not any cleaner than Tap Water
• It takes 1.5 million barrels of o11 to produce the plastic that
Americans use each year, enough to fuel 100,000 U.S. cars for a
year
• An estimated 40 percent of bottled water sold in the United
States Is Just filtered tap water.
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• The areas with Yellow dots show the concentration of
Plastic in the Pacific Vortex
• Each Year Millions of sea animals are killed or suffer
health issues because of the pollution
• The amount of Plastic is as large as the state of TEXAS
in some areas.
• 80% of the plastic is land based
The Effects of Plastic are City
Wide in Miami
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