Welcome to What The Plastics

Fewer than one in seven

plastic bags are re-cycled

91% Of Plastic Ever Made

Have Not Been Recycled

More than half of the plastic ever produced was

is projected to double in the next 20 years.

created in the last decade. Global plastic production

100 billion plastic bags are used

by Americans per year, More than

300 bags per person per year.

Plastics bags are used for an

average of 12 minutes, But a single

plastic bag has a life expectancy

of up to 1,000 years.

Plastics were never meant to be apart of the natural environment.

Since they aren’t natural and are man-made, they never go away.

They break down into smaller pieces harming the environment in the form of microplastics.

Microplastics are consumed by unknowing animals and then work their way up through the food chain, harming us all.

“Recycling” plastic is not the answer.

Avoiding plastic is