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When was the first entirely synthetic plastic invented?
1839
1890
1925
1944
What was the first widely marketed plastic?
Polystyrene
Celluloid
Polyvinyl
Cellophane®
Of the 10.5 million tons of plastic waste Americans generate per year,____% is recycled.
45%
30%
15%
5%
An estimated____ pounds of trash, much of it plastic is dumped in the world's oceans every year.
90 million
300 million
1 billion
14 billion
Currently the Pacific Garbage Patch located in the North Pacific Gyre is twice the size of _____ .
Connecticut
Texas
Washington
Ohio
Upwards of_________ seabirds and mammals die per year by ingesting plastic.
1 million
500 thousand
5 thousand
1 thousand
In the US alone, it takes___________barrels of oil to produce one years worth of plastic bags.
1 million
5 million
12 million
16 million
On average we only recycle one plastic bag in every______we use.
10
40
100
200
Over______ plastic bags are used every year worldwide.
1 trillion
500 billion
100 million
50 million
Every square mile of ocean has about pieces of plastic floating in it.
6,000
15,000
23,000
46,000