Learn more about why you need OneEarth Bottles.
Fast Fact
Every year over 16.5 million gallons of water are poured into
plastic bottles that end up in landfills.
Fast Fact
More than 26 million plastic bottles end up in landfills each year.
Fast Fact
It takes 17 million barrels of oil annually to produce plastic
bottles (enough to fuel more than a million cars a year).
Fast Fact
Transporting plastic bottles wastes another 1.5 million barrels of
oil.
Is Bottled Water Better?
After a four-year study, the Natural Resource Defense Council
concluded that just because water comes out of a bottle it is
not any cleaner or safer than water from the tap.
Studies show that chemicals called phthalates, which are known
to disrupt testosterone and other hormones, can leach into
bottled water over time. Although there are regulatory standards
limiting phthalates in tap water, there are no legal limits for
phthalates in bottled water! Clever marketing convinces one in
five people that the best way to consume water is from a plastic
bottle.
You can save up to $500 a year by switching to a reusable
stainless steel bottle!
"The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob
mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable
act of taking. I fear that we are doing irreparable harm to our
planet and to our individual spirits."
– Chris Jordan, artist
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