Plastic Bottle Stats

Arm yourself with some of these plastic bottle statistics:

- Every 3.9 seconds, North Carolinians throw away enough plastic bottles to reach the height of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.

- Every hour, North Carolinians throw away enough plastic bottles to line the length of Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte 22.9 times.

- In a year, North Carolinians throw away enough plastic bottles to line the Blue Ridge Pkwy 642 times.

- Every 75 minutes, North Carolinians throw away enough plastic bottles to equal the weight of a Fort Bragg F16 fighter plane.

- In the time it takes you to brush your teeth (2 minutes), North Carolinians will have sent 4,657 PET bottles to a landfill.

- North Carolinians throw away more than $41,411,600 in plastic each year.

- Producing new plastic from recycled material uses only two-thirds of the energy required to manufacture it from raw materials.