With every new study published awareness of single-use plastics harm becomes more evident, we learn that plastic is full of toxic chemicals, that plastic is leached into the water, soil and then into our bodies. Plastic is persistent and doesn’t get reused by natural ecological processes over time like organic material. Single-use plastic is used for a few minutes by consumers and then lasts forever in some form.

According to the EPA, ” Rather than biodegrading, plastic waste often breaks down into tiny pieces know as microplastics (less than 5 mm in size), which are nearly impossible to clean up once they are in the environment.