Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Environmental Effects of Plastic Bottles

Question: You can hold your breath for one minute without too much discomfort.  Try it. Then ask yourself: how many plastic bottles did Americans discard during those 60 seconds?

Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.

Relevance:  In the U.S., most of these bottles wind up in landfills.  In countries like Indonesia that have no trash collection, they are discarded into rivers, which take the waste to the oceans.

Now, there are an estimated 6.5 trillion bits of plastic in our oceans, which, due to currents, make there way to every ocean on Earth in a period of about 25 years.

More on this here.