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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.
Heating will certainly increase the rate at which chemicals can migrate from the plastic, he says. Of course, we're not saying that you should never reuse a water bottle (after all, we only have one Earth, and we need to take care of it). But you can be strategic about what kinds of water bottles you buy and reuse, Belcher notes. He recommends glass bottles with protective frames, as well as stainless steel bottles.