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SUMMARY:How Long Until It Is Gone?
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recyclable post-consumer packing with an estimated value of $11.4 billion is land-filled in the United States each year instead of being recycled?\nDid you also know that 80% of that trash that is in our landfills is recyclable?\nMany people think that after a few years the trash that has made its way to the ocean\, either intentionally or unintentionally\, will break down and decompose. Unfortunately\, this is not the case for almost all ocean debris.\nAccording to the Mote Marine Lab in Sarasota\, Florida\, it is estimated that one glass bottle alone takes 1 million years to decompose. However\, it is undetermined the exact time it takes glass to break down due to its significantly long decomposition rate.\n\n  \nWhat is the most common trash collected during cleanups? \n\nRanked from most common to least common based off of the findings from the International Coastal Cleanup hosted by the Ocean Conservancy:\nCigarettes/Cigarette Filters – 1-5 years to biodegrade\nPlastic Food Wrapper/Containers – 20-30 years\nPlastic water bottles – 450 years\nPlastic bags – 10-20 years\nPlastic caps and lids – 450-1\,000 years\nPlastic utensils – 450 years\nPlastic straws and stirrers – up to 200 years\nGlass bottles – 1 million years (estimated\, exact time unknown)\nAluminum cans – 80-200 years\nPaper bags – 1 month\nPlastic water bottles were first created and commercially used in 1947.\nThat means if a plastic water bottle was dropped into the ocean the very first year that plastic bottles were created\, it is still floating somewhere and will not be “completely gone” until the year 2397.\nEven then\, plastics do not completely decompose\, they become micro-plastics. Because of the many carbon-carbon bonds that are used in processing plastics to be as sturdy as they are\, the organisms responsible for breaking down organic compounds do not recognize these unnatural strong carbon-carbon bonds and therefore cannot break these compounds down.\n\n 
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