Studies show that people around the world buy a total of one million single-use plastic bottles every minute. That's almost 1.5 billion plastic bottles a day! Single-use bottles have become extremely common in our society. This year alone, every person in the world will use an average of 300 pounds of single-use plastic. It's easy to throw it away, go about your day and forget about it. In fact, when you throw it away, it still has to go somewhere. One big problem is that 91% of plastic isn't actually recycled.