I always tell people that we are pissing away tremendous amounts of oil on our plastic production. Never did look up the numbers.

Got this the other day. It only talks about plastic water bottles, so imagine the numbers on plastics in general. Maybe some day I'll look those up.
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Bottled Water Production & Use In The U.S.:

• Uses 17 million barrels of oil per year to manufacture the plastic bottles.
• Causes the release of over 2.5 million TONs of CO2 gases from manufacturing the plastic.
• Uses over 10 million barrels of oil annually to transport or deliver bottles of water.
• It takes 3 times as much water to produce the bottle than it does to fill it.
• Causes over 60,000,000 plastic bottles a day to go into U.S. landfills!
• All plastic bottles leach chemicals into the water at some level.

Plastic was invented 144 years ago and over 98% of all plastic ever produced still exists today. It is estimated that it takes 300—500 years for plastic to biodegrade. With the current growth in the use and disposal of plastic, it is only a matter of time until we choke our planet with a layer of plastic.