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.
Now at 38.6 percent, the recycling rate for single-serve PET plastic bottled water containers has more than doubled in the last seven years, and PET plastic bottled water containers are the most frequently recycled PET beverage container in curbside recycling programs.