Think Before you Drink Bottle Water
The environmental impact of bottled water is profound:
It takes an estimated 1.5 million barrels of oil to make the plastic water bottles Americans use each year.1
Americans throw away 38 million recyclable plastic water bottles into landfills each year, taking more than 1,000 years to biodegrade and leaching toxics into ground water.2
Water coolers and individual water bottles are extremely heavy to transport. Distribution of bottles water by boat, truck and train involves burning massive quantities of fossil fuels.
Bottles water is often from a municipal source. Water diverted from local aquifers for the bottled water industry can strain surrounding ecosystems.
1 "Bottles Water: Pouring Resources Down the Drain" Earth Policy Institute, February 2, 2006. June 28, 2007.
2 "Message in a Bottle" Fast Company Magazine, July 2007
It takes an estimated 1.5 million barrels of oil to make the plastic water bottles Americans use each year.1
Americans throw away 38 million recyclable plastic water bottles into landfills each year, taking more than 1,000 years to biodegrade and leaching toxics into ground water.2
Water coolers and individual water bottles are extremely heavy to transport. Distribution of bottles water by boat, truck and train involves burning massive quantities of fossil fuels.
Bottles water is often from a municipal source. Water diverted from local aquifers for the bottled water industry can strain surrounding ecosystems.
1 "Bottles Water: Pouring Resources Down the Drain" Earth Policy Institute, February 2, 2006. June 28, 2007.
2 "Message in a Bottle" Fast Company Magazine, July 2007
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