While many plastic ... Americans buy 29 billion water bottles a year, and for every six purchased, only one is recycled, and it can take 1,000 years for a plastic bottle to break down.

American Beverage, the Washington-based organization representing the nonalcoholic beverage industry in the U.S., recently marked the five-year anniversary of its Every ... bottles included recycled ...

our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce ... beverage bottles are sold every minute. 4. Avoid plastic packaging. Buy bar ...

Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Nothing is an emergency ...

If the Pilgrims had been like many people today and simply tossed their empty bottles and ... Meanwhile, ocean plastic is estimated to kill millions of marine animals every year.

Narrator: Adidas makes over 400 million pairs of shoes every year. Manufacturing that many shoes ... recovered plastic is sent to an Adidas processing plant. Adidas uses plastic bottles that ...

More than 1.8 million of them have been collected over those 10 years. Why do so many ... when you buy a soda, perhaps, or a gallon of milk or anything else that comes in a plastic bottle ...