According to a study conducted for Earth day, people in the United States use billions of disposable plastic waste items that end up polluting rivers, oceans, and lakes, and are harmful to lots of wildlife and ecosystems. As an estimate, over 584 billion plastic water bottles were used in 2021 alone, and the amount of single-use plastic used globally has tripled since the beginning of the pandemic. As a means of measurement, I asked a few of my friends about their single-use plastic waste habits and made 2 graphs. One graph shows the type of single-use plastic waste used per friend per week. Then in my second graph, I took the friend that used the highest amount of single-use plastic products per week, calculated what their total amount of single-use plastic products would be for a year, and compared them. Making these graphs stood out to me because I wanted to understand what a big impact the repeated use of single-use plastic makes in the long run. Although it doesn’t seem like using these pieces of plastic each day is a lot, however; it continues to add up and attribute to a very large total. This somewhat provides an interesting look at plastic consumption and waste and serves as a wake-up call to make a bit of a change in daily consumption habits.