Benefits of Reusable Water Bottles + Sale!
April 18, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Green Living
Reusable water bottles are essential if you’re trying to go green. First of all, you should be drinking water. It’s better for you than chemically charged sodas and other sticky sweet drinks especially with summer coming. You need to care for yourself first then the planet. The issue with water though is that plenty of people like to carry their water on the go. Many of these folks buy bottled water which is so not earth-friendly.
WHY NOT BUY BOTTLED WATER?:
- Drinking Tap water is way more eco-friendly than bottled.
- While plastic water bottles ARE recyclable, it doesn’t mean folks are doing their job. According to the Container Recycling Institute (CRI), 8 out of 10 plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or end up in a landfill.
- Plastic water bottles are made from non-renewable resources; the Earth Policy Institute says it takes about 15 million barrels of oil per year to create enough bottles to meet demand.
- The making of plastic bottles releases icky junk into out air, soil, and water supply. Some can even leach chemicals into your water.
- In costly news, bottled water is costly. Especially when you can simply drink tap water.
- See all the problems with bottled water.
SIGG offers pretty water bottles
Now is the perfect time to get your very own reusable water bottle and to lower your disposables footprint. In honor of Earth Day SIGG has teamed up with their pals at 1% For The Planet. SIGG already contributes 1% of global sales to environmental causes, but with this new deal, they’ll also donate an additional $1 for every bottle sold on their site using a special discount code.
Just enter the code SIGGEARTH at checkout and get an extra $5 off of your order. That’s $1 extra for the planet and $5 off for you!
If you can’t find a SIGG bottle that screams “MINE” check out some other options: The Best Looking Reusable Water Bottles on the Planet.
You can also check out some reviews:
Green Product Review: SIGG Water Bottle
Green Product Review: Klean Kanteen Water Bottle
So, are you using a reusable water bottle?
[images via SIGG]
Thanks for the info, reusable water bottles are the way to go. Almost all these companies were new to me and the bottles look fantastic. That’s the way to get kids to use them also.
If one does not feel confident drinking the local tap water, it’s easy to attach a sink filter and have good quality water in an eco-friendly way.