In our modern world, it is easy to get stuck in a fast-paced lifestyle that offers immediate convenience with single-use items, such as plastic bags, plastic straws, or takeout cups. Every year, 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide; this means 2 million plastic bags are used each minute (Earth Policy Institute). Almost every shop we visit provides some kinds of mass-produced plastic products that can be effortlessly thrown away after one use. Imagine the other side of the picture, where do all of these single-use items go if they can't be recycled: landfills. Sadly, this makes many of us hard to believe that our world was once plastic-free.
