One Month of Plastic Waste

Just to see how we are contributing to the problem in our everyday lives, we decided to collect our 'single-use' plastic waste for one month.

These photos show the amount of 'single use' plastic waste that the two of us accumulated during the month of October 2018.

It weighed 6.3 pounds (101 ounces).

Spread out to a single layer, it covered 30 square feet.

Extended to 1 year, it would weigh 74.3 pounds and cover 353 square feet.

If everyone in the United States (350 million) generated the same amount per person, the total would weigh 13.0 BILLION pounds and cover 1.42 MILLION acres or 2,217 square miles.

We had nearly no choice but to create this accumulation of non-degradeable rubbish, when we bought the products we regularly use.

This is why the world has this BIG problem!

(Yes, I know there are many other BIG problems facing the world; this just happens to be the one that caught my attention.  :)