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.
Usually, they point to the roughly 50 billion (mostly plastic) bottles we throw away every year. The International Bottled Water Association, ever sensitive to criticism that it's wasting precious resources, has commissioned its first ever study to figure out how much water goes into producing one liter.