According to National Geographic, the average American produces almost 4.5 pounds of garbage per day, or about 1500 pounds each year. Additionally, in a recent poll, almost half of Americans reported using at least 25 garbage bags per month. Plastic does not decompose in a healthy way. Instead, it releases high energy gasses back into the atmosphere, causing pollution. When plastics do physically break down, they send microplastics into the ocean – which destroy delicate aquatic ecosystems and get swallowed by sea animals. All of this is to say that ...