DID YOU KNOW...

In the US, 22 billion plastic bottles end up in landfills and incinerators every year!(CRI.com)

Health-conscious Americans are consuming water from disposable plastic bottles at a rate of more than 70 million bottles each day.(CRI.com)

Some bottled water travels up to 10,000 miles!
(Harvest for Hope, Goodall)

A comparison of identically sized 12-packs of bottled water linked with different brands and stores revealed prices ranging from $2.99 to $4.99 per gallon. Bottled water can cost as much as 10,000 times more than tap water, according to the AWWA. (CRI.com)

The Container Recycling Institute calculates that if the nationwide average of beverage container recycling were 80 percent, the savings would be the emissions equivalent of taking 2.4 million cars off the road a year. The Institute also says that if the recycling content of plastic beverage bottles was 25 percent nationwide, that would save enough crude oil to run electricity in 680,000 American homes a year.
(NC Times)

Plastic Bottles...a waste of water

Think of all the countries with droughts. Why would you support something that wastes 17 times as much water creating the bottle than filling the bottle when there are people dying of thirst??

HEALTH WARNING: In 1999, the NRDC found that 1 out of every 5 bottled waters sampled contained known neurotoxins and carcinogens. A second study found that, out of 103 brands of bottled water, one third contained traces of ARSENIC and E. coli.* TAP WATER: "Tap water is a public resource, so local authorities must be prepared to provide extensive documentation on its quality to the consumer. But one cannot get access to information concerning the quality of bottled water" (Goodall)

*All of the above facts can be found in Jane Goodall's book, Harvest For Hope, pages 252-5.