Quick Facts

A single 700 mL (23.7 oz) plastic water bottle can hold 30-100 pieces of trash (depending on size) and weighs about 1.5 lbs.

This bench was made out of 96 water bottles which in total contains around 144 pounds of recycled plastic trash.

The average American uses about 156 water bottles a year, totaling about 500 billion water bottles being used in America alone annually.

It takes around 450 years for a single water bottle to decompose.

The average American discards about 221 kg of plastic a year.

Of plastic waste: 9% is recycled,19% is incinerated, 22% is littered, and 50% is sent to landfills.

A garbage truckload amount of plastic trash enters the ocean every minute.

About 12 million tons of trash enter Earth's oceans every year.