Comments on: Break the Bottled Water Habit http://blog.brighterplanet.com/2008/08/13/break-the-bottle-water-habit/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:25:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: bottled water http://blog.brighterplanet.com/2008/08/13/break-the-bottle-water-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-94 bottled water Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:15:46 +0000 http://blog.brighterplanet.com/?p=154#comment-94 well, that's a fact! well, that’s a fact!

]]> By: best bottled water http://blog.brighterplanet.com/2008/08/13/break-the-bottle-water-habit/comment-page-1/#comment-56 best bottled water Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:45:54 +0000 http://blog.brighterplanet.com/?p=154#comment-56 The sound you DON’T hear is the thwack of 60 million bottles a day being tossed into U.S. landfills, where they can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade. If that’s not enough to turn your conscience a brighter shade of green, add this: Producing those bottles burns through 1.5 million barrels of crude oil annually--enough fuel to keep 100,000 cars running for a year. Recycling helps but reusing is even better. Invest in a couple of portable, dishwasher-safe, stainless steel bottles like Klean Kanteens that won’t leach nasty chemicals into your water. (Don’t get into the habit of refilling the water bottle you just emptied; the polyethylene terephthalate it’s made of breaks down with multiple usings. The sound you DON’T hear is the thwack of 60 million bottles a day being tossed into U.S. landfills, where they can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade.

If that’s not enough to turn your conscience a brighter shade of green, add this: Producing those bottles burns through 1.5 million barrels of crude oil annually–enough fuel to keep 100,000 cars running for a year. Recycling helps but reusing is even better. Invest in a couple of portable, dishwasher-safe, stainless steel bottles like Klean Kanteens that won’t leach nasty chemicals into your water. (Don’t get into the habit of refilling the water bottle you just emptied; the polyethylene terephthalate it’s made of breaks down with multiple usings.

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