Staying Hydrated and Protecting the Environment With Filtered Water

I’ve posted before about the environmental impact of drinking bottled water. With Earth Day around the corner (April 22!), I was excited to get a nice note from Filter for Good, offering to send me and my readers some free water filters and Nalgene water bottles! I don’t know what and how many are on the way, so I don’t have any details about the giveaway yet, but I’ll let you know as soon as I do.

In the meantime, here’s an excerpt from the Filter for Good fact sheet on bottled water:

Why is bottled water waste a concern? Here are just a few reasons…

• 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 year. 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 homes.
• Last year, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles, but only recycled 38.
• 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 year.

You can get reference sources for these facts and more details at the Filter for Good website.

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