Plastic water bottle pollution is worse than you think!! _______________________________________________ How bad is bad when it comes to plastic water bottle pollution? Pretty bad. Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute. As the environmental impact of that tide of plastic becomes a growing political issue, major packaged goods sellers and retailers are under pressure to cut the flow of single use bottles that are clogging the world’s waterways. For every six bottles people buy, only one is recycled. That leads to a big problem given the fact that water bottles are not biodegradable but rather are photodegradable. That means it takes at least upto 1000 years for every single bottle to decompose, leaking pollutants into our soil and water along the way. It is quite disastrous to look upon the facts related to our ...