According to Thought.co, "Plastic products are very common in
our modern life. According to an estimate, every year we use
approximately 1.6
million barrels of oil just for producing plastic bottled water.
Plastic waste is one of many types of wastes that take too
long to decompose."
Plastic items usually take up to 1000 years to decompose in
landfills. But plastic bags we use in
our everyday life, like the one pictured on left, take 10-20
years to decompose, while plastic bottles take 450 years.