We play with it. Out of it. Even sit on it its hard to imagine modern life without plastic almost 350000000 tonnes were produced worldwide in 2018 but plastic pollution is a serious environmental problem as the life cycle of an ordinary water bottle shows. Plastic bottles are made from petroleum the light particle can be found pretty much everywhere. Globally every single minute of the day a 1000000 are sold. Placed end to end the plastic bottle sold in 2016 would form a chain stretching all the way to the planet mercury. So youve bought a drink in a plastic bottle and finished it what happens next. In an ideal scenario it will be reused some can be refilled up to 15 times if theyre washed properly most are not sturdy though. Many end up in a shredder where theyre ground up into flakes of plastic. These can be used to make products like fleece clothing very nice except for the fact that every time the fleece is washed it releases plastic particles into the water. As for the rest of the