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Put plastic in the past.
An estimated 583 billion plastic bottles were produced in 2021. That is 100 billion more than were produced just five years ago.
This year, five trillion plastic bags will be used. That’s 160,000 every second!
Americans alone use half a billion drinking straws every day.
In 2017, packaging production constituted the highest-demanded use for plastic, with 146 million metric tons used.
The amount of single-use plastics used globally has tripled since the start of the pandemic, with takeout orders driving the increase.
Each year, enough Bubble Wrap is created globally to cover the distance between the earth and the moon.
In the U.S., we throw away more than 50 billion coffee cups every year. These are coated with plastic to laminate the inside and use plastic lids.
Around the world, people litter more than 4.5 trillion cigarette butts every year.

Did you know?
Fact #1: An estimated 1,800 gallons of water go into a single pound of beef. With that much water you could take 105 eight-minute showers a day!
Fact #2: Food is the cause of 30% of all carbon emissions.
Fact #3: Beef produces the most greenhouse gas emissions, which include methane. A global average of 110lb (50kg) of greenhouse gases is released per 3.5oz of protein.
Fact #4: Beef requires 20 times more land and emits 20 times more GHG emissions per gram of edible protein than common plant proteins, such as beans.
Fact #5: Raising animals for food takes up half of all water used in the U.S.
Fact #6: Animal agriculture takes up land and is a leading cause of deforestation. In 2018, 30 million acres of tropical rainforest were lost. Which is equivalent of 43 football fields a minute!
Fact #7: Plant-based meat uses 72%–99% less water than conventional meat (l-water/kg-meat).
Fact #8: Methane, a greenhouse gas, has over 25 times the impact on our planet as carbon dioxide over a 100-year period. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the largest contributor of methane in the US is livestock and their waste.
Fact #9: Plant-based meat requires no antibiotics at all. It also greatly reduces the risk of antifungal resistance, which can arise from the use of fungicides on crops, because plant-based meat requires much less crop production than conventional meat.
Fact #10: Producing animal-based foods generates more greenhouse gas emissions than plant-based foods, which is why shifting toward a more plant-based or plant-forward diet is recognized as a solution for curbing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change.
Fact #11: 1 gallon of cow’s milk requires 1950 gallons of water.
Fact #12: One recent study by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization concluded that, on average, it takes about three pounds of grain to raise one pound of meat.
Fact #13: Livestock contributes nearly 2/3 of agriculture’s greenhouse & 78% of its methane emissions.
Fact #14: It takes more than 11 times as much fossil fuel to make one calorie from animal protein as it does to make one calorie from plant protein.