In the UK alone, 13 BILLION plastic bottles are disposed of every year.
Source: WRAP/RECOUP study 2007
On average each UK household uses 500 plastic bottles every year.
Source: WRAP/RECOUP study 2007
A plastic bottle in a land fill takes over 500 years to decompose.
Every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic.
Source: The United Nations Environment Program 2006
Imagine a waterbottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That's about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.
Source: National Geographic
By using recycled polyester, each curtain conserves a half gallon of oil.
One shower curtain = 5 water bottles.
Bottles are collected, shredded, melted then woven into a shower curtain. The shower curtain itself, a recycled product can then be recycled again.
