#BEATPLASTICPOLLUTION

IF YOU CAN’T REUSE IT,

REFUSE IT
Packaging

HOW IS PLASTIC Consumer and

39.9%

USED? household goods,

furniture, sport,
Building and health, safety
construction
22.4%
19.7%
Automotive
Electronics
Agriculture
8.9%
5.8%
3.3%

2.6% 16.7%
Former Soviet Republics -
Asia
Commonwealth of
18.5% 18.5% Independent States
Canada, Mexico, Europe
United States 28%
China 4.3%
7.3% Japan
Middle East
and Africa
4.4%
WHERE Latin
America
IS PLASTIC
PRODUCED?

DID YOU
KNOW? Every year the world In the last decade, we 50% of the plastic
uses 5 trillion produced more plastic than we use is single-use
plastic bags in the whole last century or disposable

We buy 1 million Every year, we use 17 million In 2016, 480 billion Plastic makes up
plastic bottles barrels of oil to produce drinking bottles were 10% of all of the
every minute plastic bottles for our water sold worldwide waste we generate

Cigarette
butts

Sanitary Food
applicators containers

Cutlery, straws
WHAT PLASTIC Cups
and stirrers HAVE YOU PICKED UP and lids

ON THE BEACH?

Cotton Balloons and

buds balloon sticks

Sweet Drink bottles

wrappers

Crisp packets Plastic bags

PLASTIC
MANAGEMENT
Every year, up to The plastic we throw Disposable plastic
13 million tonnes of plastic away can circle the Earth items represent
leak into our oceans four times in a single year 50% of marine litter

95% of disposable Plastic can survive Recycling plastic takes We can save 1,000-2,000
plastic packaging in the environment 88% less energy than gallons of gasoline by
is wasted for up to 500 years making new plastic recycling one ton of plastics

Refuse Refuse
disposable single-serving
plastic packaging

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

IF YOU CAN’T REUSE IT,

Pressure your
municipality
to put in place
REFUSE IT Bring
your own
coffee mug
deposit schemes

Find innovative ways Choose

to replace single-use plastic reusable
in your everyday life lunch bags

RETHINK
PLASTICS
Redesign and innovate: Improve waste Scale up the adoption
make plastic products collection, sorting of reusable plastic
easier to recycle and reprocessing packaging

Establish a global Create viable markets Put in place Establish clear regulatory
plastics protocol for recycled plastics deposit schemes frameworks for
biodegradable plastics

BREAK UP WITH
SINGLE-USE PLASTIC!

#BEATPLASTICPOLLUTION

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