Filter For Good
Why is bottled water waste a concern? Here are just a few reasons...
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Making bottles to meet America's demand for bottled water uses more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year1. And that's not even including the oil used for transportation.
The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes2.
Last year, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles, but only recycled 383.
Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. However, the U.S.'s recycling rate for plastic is only 23 percent, which means 38 billion water bottles - more than $1 billion worth of plastic - are wasted each year3.
Ditching bottled water keeps Mother Earth and your wallet green.
One Brita pitcher filter can effectively replace as much as 300 standard 16.9-ounce bottles. So you can get great-tasting water without so much waste. Talk about refreshing.
The average Brita pitcher filters 240 gallons of water a year for about 19 cents a day4. Put in perspective, to get the same amount of water from bottled water would require 1,818 16.9-ounce water bottles a year5 - at an average cost of a dollar a bottle, that's $4.98 a day6.
For about $10 each, you can purchase a 16-ounce or 32-ounce Nalgene bottle, saving you hundreds of dollars a year on bottled water.
Hydration at its best - carry the water you need and reduce your impact on the environment - one Nalgene bottle can last for decades, making it easy to stop buying single-serve bottled water to fulfill your everyday hydration needs.
Many people drink bottled water because they believe it to be of a higher quality, cleaner and better-tasting, but that's not necessary true.
In the United States, 24 percent of bottled water sold is either Pepsi's Aquafina (13 percent of the market) or Coke's Dasani (11 percent of the market). Both brands are bottled, purified municipal water3.
If you don't like the taste of your tap water, try Brita. Nine out of 10 consumers say "Brita clearly tastes better," according to an in-home usage study. They preferred the taste of Brita water - filtered through pitchers - to tap.
Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group, told The New York Times that "there is no reason to believe that bottled water is safer than tap water."7
In the U.S., public water is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which requires multiple daily tests for bacteria and makes results available to the public. The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates bottled water, only requires weekly testing and does not share its findings with the EPA or the public7.
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1 Arnold, Emily, and Janet Larsen. "Bottled Water: Pouring Resources Down the Drain ." Earth Policy Institute. 2 Feb. 2006. 28 June 2007.
2 "Not Disposable Anymore." P.O.V.'s Borders. 2004. PBS.
3 Fishman, Charles. "Message in a Bottle." Fast Company Magazine July 2007: 110.
4 This cost assumes the purchase of a $25 pitcher (one filter included), plus 5 replacement filters at $9 each, for a total yearly cost of $70, or $0.19 cents a day.
5 Each filter produces 40 gallons of water and the average Brita owner uses 6 filters in a year, to produce 240 gallons, or 30,720 ounces, of fresh-filtered water. 30,720 ounces is equivalent to the water found in 1,818 16.9-ounce water bottles.
6 Purchasing 1,818 16.9-ounce water bottles at the cost of $1 each costs $1,818. Over the course of a year, that's $4.98 a day.
7 Burros, Marian. "Fighting the Tide, a Few Restaurants Tilt to Tap Water." The New York Times [New York City, NY] 30 May 2007: Section F, Page 1.
http://filterforgood.com/
Making bottles to meet America's demand for bottled water uses more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year1. And that's not even including the oil used for transportation.
The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes2.
Last year, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles, but only recycled 383.
Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. However, the U.S.'s recycling rate for plastic is only 23 percent, which means 38 billion water bottles - more than $1 billion worth of plastic - are wasted each year3.
Ditching bottled water keeps Mother Earth and your wallet green.
One Brita pitcher filter can effectively replace as much as 300 standard 16.9-ounce bottles. So you can get great-tasting water without so much waste. Talk about refreshing.
The average Brita pitcher filters 240 gallons of water a year for about 19 cents a day4. Put in perspective, to get the same amount of water from bottled water would require 1,818 16.9-ounce water bottles a year5 - at an average cost of a dollar a bottle, that's $4.98 a day6.
For about $10 each, you can purchase a 16-ounce or 32-ounce Nalgene bottle, saving you hundreds of dollars a year on bottled water.
Hydration at its best - carry the water you need and reduce your impact on the environment - one Nalgene bottle can last for decades, making it easy to stop buying single-serve bottled water to fulfill your everyday hydration needs.
Many people drink bottled water because they believe it to be of a higher quality, cleaner and better-tasting, but that's not necessary true.
In the United States, 24 percent of bottled water sold is either Pepsi's Aquafina (13 percent of the market) or Coke's Dasani (11 percent of the market). Both brands are bottled, purified municipal water3.
If you don't like the taste of your tap water, try Brita. Nine out of 10 consumers say "Brita clearly tastes better," according to an in-home usage study. They preferred the taste of Brita water - filtered through pitchers - to tap.
Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group, told The New York Times that "there is no reason to believe that bottled water is safer than tap water."7
In the U.S., public water is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which requires multiple daily tests for bacteria and makes results available to the public. The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates bottled water, only requires weekly testing and does not share its findings with the EPA or the public7.
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1 Arnold, Emily, and Janet Larsen. "Bottled Water: Pouring Resources Down the Drain ." Earth Policy Institute. 2 Feb. 2006. 28 June 2007.
2 "Not Disposable Anymore." P.O.V.'s Borders. 2004. PBS.
3 Fishman, Charles. "Message in a Bottle." Fast Company Magazine July 2007: 110.
4 This cost assumes the purchase of a $25 pitcher (one filter included), plus 5 replacement filters at $9 each, for a total yearly cost of $70, or $0.19 cents a day.
5 Each filter produces 40 gallons of water and the average Brita owner uses 6 filters in a year, to produce 240 gallons, or 30,720 ounces, of fresh-filtered water. 30,720 ounces is equivalent to the water found in 1,818 16.9-ounce water bottles.
6 Purchasing 1,818 16.9-ounce water bottles at the cost of $1 each costs $1,818. Over the course of a year, that's $4.98 a day.
7 Burros, Marian. "Fighting the Tide, a Few Restaurants Tilt to Tap Water." The New York Times [New York City, NY] 30 May 2007: Section F, Page 1.
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just my two cents... this speaks volumes about how spoiled we are as Americans and in turn how lazy we've become. I know people at my office who buy bottled water by the cases, and see no point in bringing in a Nalgene bottle they can re-fill. "I won't make a difference". Not realizing that this ignorant way of thinking is the reason we're in this mess to begin with. Because the majority of Americans think they can't make a diffenence, so they continue the status quo. IDIOTS!!! But I digress... My favorite excuse is how they'll "have to get up and re-fill their bottle all day long". Are we really THAT lazy that we can't take a 45 second walk to the kitchen to fill up a bottle of water?!? I'm afraid so. Convenience has become such a driving force in our day-to-day life, that not only do we buy apple slices because of the amount of time we can save (1 minute?!?)buying them already sliced as opposed to just SLICING AN APPLE, but we're spending all this money on bottled water and creating all this waste, because a 45 second walk to the kitchen is an inconvenience. Well, at least we're going to spend all that time we saved wisely, right? Man, can't wait to see who gets eliminated tonight on Dancing With The Survivor Who Wants To Be Smarter Than A Fifth Grader's Big Brother, or whatever the hell it is they watch...
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