When you use a reusable water bottle, you help reduce the production of bottled beverages and therefore, the landfill and recycling burden of the bottles. Plastic bottles are an environmental disaster, if you really do have to use one always refill it with tap water instead of throwing it away. Better still, use eco friendly bottles that better protect the planet and our oceans!

Plastic water bottle production (source: Healthy Human)

The production of bottled water uses 17 million barrels of oil a year.

• It takes 3 times the amount of water in a bottle of water to make it as it does to fill it.
• Plastic water bottles are made from a petroleum product called polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which requires giant amounts of fossil fuels to make and transport.
• The production of bottled water uses 17 million barrels of oil a year. That’s slightly more than it would take to fill one million cars a year with fuel.
• It takes almost 2,000 times the energy to manufacture a bottle of water than it does to produce tap water.
• If you fill a plastic water bottle so it is about 25% full, that’s about how much oil it took to make the bottle.

Big increase in plastic found in the oceans

Did you know? According to the Environment California Research and Policy Centre, several types of plastic water bottles are made using chemicals considered carcinogenic. Aluminum, stainless steel and glass alternatives are much safer choices.

“Solid wastes are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.” – Jimmy Carter