The never ending bottled water topic, switching to a reusable water container is one of the easiest switches you can make in your life to make it a bit greener. This is one of those switches that is not only earth friendly but is easier on our wallet as well.I was reading Eat Well magazine (love it!) and thought I'd share these facts I read:
*40% of bottled water is actually just filtered tap.
*In the US alone, nearly 10 BILLION barrels of oil are used to bottle water annually. (that's just production)
*It takes an average plastic water bottle 1,000 years to decompose.
*In the US we toss over 22 BILLION water bottles each year.
Yet another reason to say "screw you" to bottled water and stick with your reusable one. Kevin and I use a Pure water filter and love it. We used to tote home Smart Water in huge bottles wasting money and a lot of plastic. We are happy to have made the change.
Oh, and please stop buying those tiny baby bottles of water, that's just insane, do we really need to bottle our "sip size" water needs? I mean come on really. SIGG makes small, medium and large bottles, no excuses people!
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1 comment:
Those are some pretty shocking statistics! No more bottled water for me. Truth is that tap water is usually better than bottled water which usually only meets minimum standards.
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