Green Impact
Many organizations (among them, Greenpeace and The Environmental Research Foundation) have claimed that plastics and the consumer acceptance of plastics is declining...mainly because businesses and organizations don't know what to do with the plastics after use. In fact, the Society of Plastics Industries' Larry Thomas has stated:
According to the Clean Air Council:
• In the U.S., 4.39 pounds of trash per day and up to 56 ton of trash per
year are created by the average person.
• Only about one-tenth of all solid garbage in the United States gets recycled.
• Every year we fill enough garbage trucks to form a line that would
stretch from the earth, halfway to the moon.
• Each day the United States throws away enough trash to fill 63,000
garbage trucks.
• Almost 1/3 of the waste generated in the U.S. is packaging
• Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
• Every year, Americans make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap the
state of Texas.
• Seventy percent of U.S. municipal solid waste gets buried in landfills.
• U.S. landfills are closing at the state of 1 per day.
Until ECM BioFilms MasterBatch Pellet™ technology, there has not been a product created that will allow for the breakdown of plastic without the use of light, heat or some form of mechanical sensitivity.
According to the Clean Air Council:
• In the U.S., 4.39 pounds of trash per day and up to 56 ton of trash per
year are created by the average person.
• Only about one-tenth of all solid garbage in the United States gets recycled.
• Every year we fill enough garbage trucks to form a line that would
stretch from the earth, halfway to the moon.
• Each day the United States throws away enough trash to fill 63,000
garbage trucks.
• Almost 1/3 of the waste generated in the U.S. is packaging
• Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
• Every year, Americans make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap the
state of Texas.
• Seventy percent of U.S. municipal solid waste gets buried in landfills.
• U.S. landfills are closing at the state of 1 per day.
Until ECM BioFilms MasterBatch Pellet™ technology, there has not been a product created that will allow for the breakdown of plastic without the use of light, heat or some form of mechanical sensitivity.