Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles per hour. Each one takes 500 years to decompose.
Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour, that’s 60 million plastic bottles per day, and almost 22 billion plastic bottles per year that end up in landfills and incinerators. It takes up to 500 years for the average plastic water bottle to fully decompose meaning they will be around for generations to come.