Plastic was made to last forever. Experts emphasize the importance of reduce, reuse then recycle plastic (in that order!) to limit its negative impact. That’s where HopePodz house-cleaners come in. Instead of buying new liquid house cleaners at the store, reuse your empty plastic bottles by refilling them with HopePodz. Here are some sobering facts that keep us up at night:
- - Recycling experts tell us that on average, only 9% of the plastics we toss in the bin actually gets recycled. There are cities, however, who are doing great jobs at diverting their discards from local landfills. These cities are mainly on the West Coast and have laws mandating tough waste diversion quotas.
- - Still every year, over 2.5+ BILLION plastic house-cleaner bottles end up in landfills and oceans. They will take 500+ years to decompose.
- - Instead of biodegrading, plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces, never fully going away.
- - Toxic chemicals from single-use plastic in our landfills leach into groundwater and other waterways — eventually making its way back into the food we eat and the water we drink. This exposure has been connected to cancer, birth defects and many other ailments.
- - Plastic pollution is extremely harmful to marine life who accidentally consume or get tangled up in our trash.
- - When countries illegally burn plastic waste (which is often our exported plastic scraps), the toxic fumes can lead to respiratory illness.