Estimate the amount of plastic in the water bottles that you throw away each year. State your assumptions.
What will be an ideal response?
Assuming that you throw away one 20-oz bottle every day and a 20-oz water bottle has a mass of 10 grams,
amount of plastics thrown away per year =
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