- 28 billion plastic bottles per year
- 86% end up as garbage
- 1500 per second
- Cost $US 100 billion per year
- and create 2.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide
And the crazy thing: where most of us live, tap water is fine.
(See if you can find mistakes in the pps; there are at least two internally inconsistent numbers; they don't detract from the message, but still....)