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Environmental Defense Fund: Bottles, Bottles, Everywhere ...
It’s ironic. In many parts of the world, there is no clean drinking water. Here in the U.S., pure, drinkable water flows out of every tap, and yet Americans buy a staggering amount of bottled water. We pay big bucks for it, too – over $15 billion a year.
Worst of all, the bottles are overflowing our landfills, and contribute to global warming.
Take a look at this video from Doug James , and then check out these surprising facts.
More than a quarter of bottled water is just processed tap water , including Pepsi’s Aquafina and Coca-Cola’s Dasani. Despite this, bottled water consumption is growing at 10 percent a year, faster than any other beverage. We drink 15 times more bottled water today than we did in 1976.
This doesn’t mean we’re healthier, despite the ads. Federal regulations for municipal water are far more stringent. Bottled water rules allow higher levels of many contaminants, with more lenient requirements for filtration, testing and reporting. See NRDC’s bottled water report for details of contaminants by brand .
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— Is Five Reasons Not to Drink Bottled Water .
To be blunt, bottled water is a rip-off. Paying a dollar or more for water that would cost you a fraction of a penny from the tap shouldn’t require further discussion. Add to this 1.5 million tons each year of plastic waste, only a small percentage of which will be recycled. The rest ends up in landfills or the environment.
Bottle your ownMost of us are blessed with safe tap water. Safe doesn’t necessarily mean good-tasting, so (for some people) a water filter is a good investment. For drinking on the go, it’s tough to beat the combination of filtered water and a durable water bottle. Together, they can save you hundreds of dollars a year that would otherwise be spent on commercially bottled drinks.
But you can’t take most filters with you. That’s where Ecousable’s new Ech2o bottle comes in. Ecousable bills the Ech2o as the “world’s only environmentally safe stainless steel filtered water bottle.”
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