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How many plastic waterbottles were thrown away in 2011? Please list source(s)?

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Plastic Water Bottles Americans throw out an average of 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. This makes 60 million bottles a day--nearly 22 billion a year. Source: Clean Air Council: Waste Reduction and Recycling Program.

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