7 Good Reasons to Quit Drinking Bottled Water

Ok, not religious content but I think that this is worth posting anywhere.

We are lucky enough to have installed a reverse osmosis system under the sink with a separate faucet for drinking. I save orange juice bottles and the like and re-use them for drinking bottles when we are out in the field working.

The facts listed here are astounding:

7 Good Reasons to Quit Drinking Bottled Water

• The U.S. is the largest consumer market for bottled water in the world, followed by Mexico, China, and Brazil.
• In 2008, U.S. bottled water sales topped 8.6 billion gallons, which represented 28.9% of the U.S. liquid beverage market.
• The average American drinks 21 gallons of bottled water per year.
• According to MSNBC, the use of water bottles increased dramatically from 3.3 billion sold in 1997 to 15 billion in 2002.
• National Geographic estimates that 17 million gallons of crude oil is used on an annual basis to produce plastic bottles.
• If you fill a water bottle ¼ of the way with oil, this is about how much oil is used to manufacture that one bottle!
• This amount of oil is enough to fuel approximately a million cars for one year.It is estimated by the Container Recycling Institute and ReusableBags.com that 22 billion water bottles end up in landfills every year.
• According to Environmental Working Group’s scientific study on bottled water vs...., bottled water contains distinfection byproducts, fertilizer residue and pain medication . . . ahhhhh! Seriously – read this article.
• The bottling companies have created a FALSE sense of NEED in the U.S. for bottled water by convincing us that our tap water is tainted and bottled water is the solution . . . NOT if you watch this awesome video by the Story of Stuff about the bottled water industry.

Good Reasons to Recycle Those Plastic Bottles

• Although many plastic bottles are being recycled for good re-use as a variety of materials, National Geographic Kids states that only 1 in 6 plastic bottles makes it to the recycling bin!
• Recycling plastic bottles saves energy.
• According to recycling only one plastic bottle saves the same amount of energy as powering a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.

7 Good Reasons to Quit Drinking Bottled Water

• The U.S. is the largest consumer market for bottled water in the world, followed by Mexico, China, and Brazil.
• In 2008, U.S. bottled water sales topped 8.6 billion gallons, which represented 28.9% of the U.S. liquid beverage market.
• The average American drinks 21 gallons of bottled water per year.
• According to MSNBC, the use of water bottles increased dramatically from 3.3 billion sold in 1997 to 15 billion in 2002.
• National Geographic estimates that 17 million gallons of crude oil is used on an annual basis to produce plastic bottles.
• If you fill a water bottle ¼ of the way with oil, this is about how much oil is used to manufacture that one bottle!
• This amount of oil is enough to fuel approximately a million cars for one year.It is estimated by the Container Recycling Institute and ReusableBags.com that 22 billion water bottles end up in landfills every year.
• According to Environmental Working Group’s scientific study on bottled water vs...., bottled water contains distinfection byproducts, fertilizer residue and pain medication . . . ahhhhh! Seriously – read this article.
• The bottling companies have created a FALSE sense of NEED in the U.S. for bottled water by convincing us that our tap water is tainted and bottled water is the solution . . . NOT if you watch this awesome video by the Story of Stuff about the bottled water industry.

Good Reasons to Recycle Those Plastic Bottles

• Although many plastic bottles are being recycled for good re-use as a variety of materials, National Geographic Kids states that only 1 in 6 plastic bottles makes it to the recycling bin!
• Recycling plastic bottles saves energy.
• According to recycling only one plastic bottle saves the same amount of energy as powering a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.