The first PET Bottle
was patented
by Engineer
Nathaniel Wyeth

Bottled water requires
up to 2000 times the energy
used to produce tap water

Plastic bottles take
three times as
much water to produce than
they can actually hold

We’re close to
buying an estimated
half a trillion plastic
bottles this year

Fewer than half the
bottles bought worldwide
were recycled*
*as of 2016

Oceans will contain more
plastic than fish by
weight in the next 30 years

4 billion pairs of shoes
were made worldwide,
with almost 50% using
plastic, which will
eventually make their
way to the trash
*as of 2018

Thanks to polymers, every
single toothbrush made since
the 1930s is still out there in
the world somewhere, living
on as a piece of trash

Single-use utensils
can take a thousand
years to decompose