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.
Consumer groups estimate that we buy 13 billion plastic bottles of water in the UK each year. That is equal to about one bottle of mineral water per head of population every fortnight. Of those, we recycle some three billion and throw away an incredible ten billion. In the manufacturing process, it requires seven-yes seven-litres of water, to make a single one litre plastic bottle.