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The numbers don’t lie and are in fact shocking.
Every year, Canadians throw away three million tonnes of plastic waste. Only nine per cent is recycled. In Canada alone, up to 15 billion plastic bags are used every year and close to 57 million plastic straws are used every day.
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If the statistics do not make your jaw drop, they should. Plain and simple, plastic is destroying our planet. It is polluting our rivers, lakes, and oceans, harming wildlife, littering our land and is even generating micro-plastics in the water we use and drink.