2. Most plastics are made from oil
Most plastics are made from oil. When heated, the atoms form extremely strong carboncarbon bonds.
“Nature doesn't make things like that,” said Kenneth Peters, a chemist at Stanford University, “So organisms have never seen that before.”

4. But it’s okay… at least litter can’t kill you, right?

6. Toxic Waste –
a family of pollutants that can cause death, injury, or birth defects to living creatures; can contaminate lakes, rivers, and the atmosphere

7. Some toxic waste is released into rivers.

8. Other waste is released into the air.

9. Still other waste cannot even be destroyed or disposed of, it can only be contained.

14. Cancer Rates Since 1975

15. But where are all these chemicals coming from?
Cancer Rates Since 1975
But where are all these chemicals coming from?