Although there are no official statistics, the answer is a lot. The overall recycling rate of the UK is not enough to top some of the lists that are presented. The lowest available are those of the US, who are around 35%, so the UK is <35%. A good guess would be perhaps 5,000,000+ due to the population of the UK.
1.5 million*12 months = 18 million bottles thrown away each year.
2500000 Plastic bottles are thrown away each hour.
How many plastic bottles arte recycled each year
22 billion too many! 22 billion are thrown away each year, polluting the earth with all the other trash in the dumps.
I use about 3-4 bottles daily. So that's about - a lot a year. Gosh that is a lot. What is wrong with people? Plastic water bottles have so much bacteria and they are such a huge waste of oil! Buy a Klean Kanteen!
About 83,698,560 bottles if the bottles were about 6inches long each.
Americans throw away enough plastic bottles to circle the Earth four times every year.
}they do not degrade they break into small pieces and pollute the ocean/sea. }Also as we are the last in the food chain, we are definitely experiencing the consequences of our actions. }Plastic particles in the oceans attract toxins }Plastic photo degrades. A piece of plastic fragments smaller and smaller pieces of plastic without breaking into simpler compounds }These tiny plastic particles can get sucked up by filter feeders and damage animal's bodies }Animals also eat the plastic, which can poison them or lead to deadly blockages
Waste production statistics differ by which source is used.According to the Clean Air Council for United States citizens:2.5 million plastic bottles are trashed every hour in the United Statesthe number of glass bottles trashed every two weeks would have filled both World Trade Center towers
69 million per day in the United States and about 22 billion each year
We as Americans throw away 35 million bottle caps every year. There are programs where you can recycle just the bottle caps.
Because they are each recycled into different materials so if they were recycled together you would have plastic from both forms in one bottle and will make it harder or impossible for bio degradable bottles to decompose later on if thrown out.