Full Definition of INTERACT. intransitive verb. : to act upon one another. See interact defined for English-language learners. See interact defined for kids.
On a national basis, that means an average of 35.8m plastic bottles are used every day, but only 19.8m are recycled each day. So an average of 16m plastic bottles a day are not being recycled and are ending up in landfill â and eventually the worldâs oceans, where they will take years to break down.
1500 is the number of plastic water bottles consumed in 1 second in the US! Here a few more shocking statistics from MSLK's Watershed installation: Out of the 50 billion bottles of water being bought each year, 80% end up in a landfill, even though recycling programs exist.