Bottled Water costs more than $1.50 per bottle.
(1900 times the price of tap water!)
Bad news for your:
Wallet (You spend over $400 per year on bottled water)
Health (which can be damaged by BPAs leached from bottled water
Environment (which is tainted by the production, transportation, packaging and disposal of bottle water)
In the year 2004, the Bottled Water usage was marked as 26,000,000,000 liters.
26,000,000,000 liters is nearly 28,000,000,000 plastic bottles of which 86% will end up as garbage.
That means 1,500 bottles will wind up as garbage every second.
26,000,000,000 liters means 17,000,000 barrels of oil were used to produce those bottles. That oil could have powered 100,000 cars for that year.
AND…
Consumers spend $100 billion on Bottled Water each year, an amount that makes the Federal Bailout look small.
If you don’t know all the facts about Bottled Water, you’re in for a big surprise.
You spend money…
You pollute the Earth…
You risk polluting bodies of water…
All for Bottled Water?
35% of Bottles Water drinkers think it is safer than Tap Water.
Do you keep Bottled Water in your car?
It might be convenient, but the heat within a car can affect the plastic and cause harmful chemicals to be released that can cause Breast and other types of Cancer…
And consider what other extremes of temperature might have affected the Bottled Water before you received it.
Here's a novel and new idea...let's bring back GLASS! (which can be RECYCLED with YOUR help!) Sources of information:
http://www.earth911.com
http://www.earth-policy.org
http://us.oneworld.net
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.webmd.com
http://www.filterforgood.com