Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy Today’s Topic: Reducing Waste Plastic

A two-fer!

Questions:  How long does it take for some plastic bottles to break down in landfills?  How many plastic bags are used worldwide every year?  

Answer: Can be found at http://2greenenergy.com/cool-guess-answers/8732.

Relevance:  Most plastics are derived from petroleum and do not biodegrade, thus some lasts  thousands of times longer than the ingredients they were designed to carry.  This clogs our landfills or pollutes our environment in more even egregious ways, e.g., the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Bioplastics innovator, 2GreenEnergy friend, and all-around cool guy Shantu Patel, MD once pointed out a milk plastic carton to me and quipped, “The milk lasted a couple of weeks.  How long do you think that bottle will be around?”