the amount of plastics and plastic items that exist. when you think about every store having most everything in it in plastic bottles or containers. shampoo and hair products, detergents, soda bottles, salad dressings, cookies and crackers in plastic trays, bakery section of the store has cakes and pies in plastic containers, vegetables come in bags, shopping bags, children’s toys, appliances, fast food places: the containers that hold salads, drink cups, the furniture in the places, the countertops. sports stadiums: thousands of people drinking out of plastic cups. Home Depot: plastic tools, vinyl tile flooring, decks are now often made out of plastic, containers that have grout, caulk, 10 gallon pails of paint and other stuff. lighters, CD cases, cheap shoes, i could go on and on. it’s all plastic, and not all of it gets recycled. in fact, probably most does not get recycled. fast food places have one garbage and all the plastics go into the garbage. on construction sites, the plastic containers that held the grout, paint and other stuff just gets taken by the waste management company and taken who knows where.