Facts about coffee cups
Here are some facts about coffee cups:
*200 million coffee cups are thrown away each year in Ireland.
*528,000 a day.
*22,000 an hour.
*366 a minute.
*6 each second.
*A paper cup takes more than 20 years to decompose in a sealed landfill and a few days in a lake or ocean.
*1 in 400 coffee cups are being recycled.
*An estimated 500 billion disposable cups are put into landfill every year.
*There is a body of floating garbage in the Pacific ocean known as "The Great Pacific Garbage patch."
*Paper cups are usually lined with a membrane of plastic to make them waterproof, this means they are not recycleable.
*Most plastic used in the world today is for single use items.
*Very little recycled is used to make disposable cups due helth-risk concerns.
*200 million coffee cups are thrown away each year in Ireland.
*528,000 a day.
*22,000 an hour.
*366 a minute.
*6 each second.
*A paper cup takes more than 20 years to decompose in a sealed landfill and a few days in a lake or ocean.
*1 in 400 coffee cups are being recycled.
*An estimated 500 billion disposable cups are put into landfill every year.
*There is a body of floating garbage in the Pacific ocean known as "The Great Pacific Garbage patch."
*Paper cups are usually lined with a membrane of plastic to make them waterproof, this means they are not recycleable.
*Most plastic used in the world today is for single use items.
*Very little recycled is used to make disposable cups due helth-risk concerns.
The one that really caught our attention was:
22,000 coffee cups are disposed every hour in Ireland