Plastic Bottles

  • Worldwide 2.7 million tons of plastics are used annually to bottle drinking water.
  • In 2002, over 159,000 tonnes of plastic was sent for recycling in Australia, only 13.4% of the total plastic consumption for that year.
  • Recycling PET bottles saves 84% of the energy it takes to make PET bottles from raw materials.
  • It takes up to 1000 years for disposable plastic water bottles to decompose.
  • Consumers buy an estimated 29.8 billion plastic water bottles every year.
  • There are 2.5 million bottles thrown out EVERY HOUR.
  • Over 400,000 barrels of oil is used per year in Australia to manufacture the plastic to make the bottles
  • Out of all plastic bottles only about 30% are recycled.
  • Tap water costs 1 cent per litre compared to bottled water which costs $2.53 per litre
  • It takes seven litres of water to make a one litre plastic water bottle.
  • There are 200 billion litres of bottled water consumed worldwide with an estimate of $100 billion dollars.

Coffee Cups

  • The paper cup is made from a composite of materials: kraft bleached paper sprayed with a polyethylene coating. Paper cups are often impregnated with toxic dyes which make them difficult to recycle. The plastic lining in disposable paper cups means they are not recyclable. Biodegradation of a paper cup can take 50 years or more. It’s not just the cup and lid that go into landfill. On average, each disposable cup contains 5% of the raw materials involved in the process of making and delivering it.
  • During the manufacturing process, cups are laminated with a plastic resin called polyethylene.  This helps keep beverages warm and prevents the paper from absorbing liquids and leaking.  The plastic also prevents the cup from being recycled.  Every paper cup that is manufactured and coated with plastic resin ends up in a landfill.  Once in a landfill, the paper will begin to decompose.   This process releases methane, a greenhouse gas with 23 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide.[3]
  • Typical paper coffee cups aren’t made from recycled paper. Instead, most cups are manufactured using 100% bleached virgin paperboard (trees).
  • Around 1 billion cups of takeaway coffee are produced in Australia each year. This equates to 7 million kg of solid waste in Australian landfills per year.

 

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