Plastic Water Bottle Safety

If you have questions about your water bottle safety please watch this Today Show video.

If you have additional resources or information about plastic safety please post in the comments section.

Think before you sip

  Okay, I admit it I was “hooked” on plastic bottled water.  I bought into the advertising insinuations that bottled water is tastier and healthier.  Plus, it just seemed cooler to drink water from the mountain stream or some other auspicious place. 

It’s ironic that the millions of plastic bottles used for water are actually destroying the very mountain stream they claim to use.

Did you know making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil in 2006, enough fuel for more than 1 million United States cars for a year, and generated more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide?

Worldwide, 2.7 million tons of plastic are used each year to make water bottles, and in the United States, less than 1 out of 5 of these bottles are recycled.

The rest find their way into landfills and just sit there for decades to come.

Why should we waste precious oil and energy and create pollution for a plastic bottle?

Besides wasting our precious resources bottled water is plain expensive.

Do you know how much cold cash do you spend on bottled water? If you drink eight glasses a day from plastic bottled water, you could spend up to $1,400 dollars a year! Bottled water can cost as much as $10 per gallon compared to less than a penny per gallon for tap water.

I can think of a lot better ways to spend $1400.00 than drinking plastic bottled water, how about you?

An easy way to go green at home or at the office, give up the plastic bottled water habit. Save your cash and the environment, use a safe reusable water bottle (I recommend SIGG, or something similar) or the glass in your kitchen cupboard.