Plastic sense

Here are a few facts about Plastic:

• If we recycled every plastic bottle we used, we would keep 2 billion tons of plastic out of landfills.
• It takes 25 two-liter plastic soft drink bottles to make a sweater.
• It takes two plastic soft drink bottles to make enough polyester fiber for a baseball cap.
• It takes 35 two liter plastic soft drink bottles to make 1 sleeping bag.
• Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
• In India, cows tend to pick out plastic from open trash cans and chew on bits. This can go through the intestine and enter into the food chain.
• Plastic is NON BIODEGRADABLE!

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Code Green, a program in Bangalore, plans to clean out Lal Bagh's plastic litter and set a civic discipline among city dwellers, towards the use and misuse of plastic. Come join us on a March from Vidhana Soudha to Lal Bagh, on March 16, 8.30 am.