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The RosEco project — formerly known as MosEco, but this year expanding its activities beyond the Moscow region — has published an infographic that talks about the dangers of single-use bags, plastic and paper tableware and plastic bottles, as well as the benefits of their eco-friendly alternatives. To create it, a presidential grant received by the project as a result of the competition "League of Nation's Health" was used.

Infographics:

The key recommendations that the authors of infographics make based on the given statistical facts are simple and obvious:

1. use eco-bags or shopping bags (plastic bags make up 10% of the garbage produced by mankind and cover 1/4 of the world's oceans, and the so-called "biodegradable" bags do not decompose by 90%);
2. use reusable utensils for picnics, camping trips, etc. (disposable plastic tableware is banned in the USA, China, Canada, India, Germany, and paper is not recyclable);
3. use a reusable bottle, and send the purchased plastic for recycling (the period of decomposition of plastic bottles is 100-500 years, and 17 million barrels of oil are spent annually on their production).

See also anekdotig:

• Tip: " Use a reusable water container ."
• Video: What Really Happens to the Plastic You Throw Away .