English subtitles for clip: File:Plastic bottles pollutions explained by Ocean Campus (Surfrider Foundation Europe).webm

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Plastic bottles are among the top ten types of trash found in the ocean.

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Every year, Surfrider collects more than 80,000 bottles from beaches, lakes and rivers.

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In Europe, we're world champions, as the top consumer of water bottles per person per year:

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73 bottles on average – that's 52 billion litres of water.

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Which is 990 thousand tonnes of plastic, or the same weight as 100 Eiffel towers.

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But did you know that only 59 percent of them are collected for recycling, and that a great number of them end up in nature?

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The result?  They take between 100 and 1000 years to decompose in the environment.

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One million birds and 100,000 mammals die every year, and 690 species are threatened by plastic pollution.

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And that's not all.  Bottled water is 100 to 300 times more expensive, on average, than tap water.

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Packaging makes up 90 percent of a water bottle's cost.

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But, there's a simple solution.  One reusable bottle is all you need.

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Pollute less, and save money.

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Let's change our habits to protect the ocean.