Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Plastic Bottles
Question: How many single-use plastic bottles are sold per minute? What percentage of them are unrecycled?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: Those of us who care what life on this planet is going to be like when our children and grandchildren grow up recognize that this is not a path to sustainability. There are now six trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans, soon to outnumber fish and other aquatic animals.
Craig,
Yes indeed and the problem is only growing worse, although with innovations in technology completely bio-degradable plastics are becoming a reality.
In addition, scientists at several competing facilities are creating super-specialized microbes which can eat partly degraded plastic fragments.
As is usually the way, a new technology is created to repair the damage of the older technology.