Refuse :
The problem is simply too massive to be promoting a gradual reduction in single-use disposable plastics. Every 5 minutes, 2 million plastic bottles are thrown away, using 750 million gallons of crude oil per year. In the U.S. only 20% of those bottles are recycled.
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I have never thrown a plastic bottle into the garbage. What's wrong with the rest of you?
We're too lazy to recycle.
No. Here in CA, we have curb-side recycling that most everyone uses, but the truth is that big business doesn't want to recycle, so in many / most communities they merely mix it all together and throw it in our landfills. Disgraceful.
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I've heard of that problem, but I see lots of empty bottles just thrown in trash cans in public areas.
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