How long does garbage decompose. Infographics shutterstock

How long does garbage decompose. Infographics

Olena Yatseno

Activists called on people to clean up after the picnic

Household waste can decompose from a few weeks to hundreds and millions of years.

Such data were provided in the infographic by environmental activists from the public organization Zero Vaste Lviv, which was published on their Facebook page.

According to them, banana peel decomposes in 2-5 weeks, a month and a half - newsprint. It takes two months to decompose an apple cob.

Cigarette butt lives 1-5 years. But items such as a plastic bag, polystyrene foam have been needed for decades.

At the same time, aluminum cans decompose over 200 years. It takes almost half a century for a disposable diaper and a plastic bottle to decompose.

Not the longest decomposition process in a glass bottle - 1 million years.

Citing this infographic, activists urged people to clean up after a picnic.

"We just want to remind you: wherever you rest, leave clean. Garbage is not removed everywhere. And waste thrown into the bushes or buried in the ground (except organic) decomposes for a long time," is in the message.

Metal, glass, plastic and paper should be collected and sorted into appropriate containers. This can save raw materials from landfills and save resources for further production.

If you take food or drinks with you in reusable containers, you can do without waste at all.

We will remind that in Chernivtsi for May, 2022 they earned more than 300 thousand hryvnias on garbage sorting.

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