Unoka - Okonkwoâs father, of whom Okonkwo has been ashamed since childhood. By the standards of the clan, Unoka was a coward and a spendthrift. He never took a title in his life, he borrowed money from his clansmen, and he rarely repaid his debts.
Different kinds of plastic can degrade at different times, but the average time for a plastic bottle to completely degrade is at least 450 years. It can even take some bottles 1000 years to biodegrade! Thatâs a long time for even the smallest bottle. 90% of bottles arenât even recycled.
By the way, paper grocery bags are just as bad as plastic bags. 1  Plastic bags take anywhere from 15 to 1000 years to decompose. 2  Only 1 percent of plastic bags are recycled in the United States. 3  The rest end up in landfills, the ocean, or some other place in the environment.