Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Plastic Bottles

sssQuestion:  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.

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One comment on “Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Plastic Bottles
  1. marcopolo says:

    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.