Thursday, February 5, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009

What’s in the bucket?
Hint: It’s NOT bottled water!
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= $1.50 = $0.00
for water for water
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= $0.01
for water
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= $6.00
for water
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2004 total bottled water consumption (liters)
26,000,000,000
18,000,000,000
12,000,000,000 12,000,000,000
China Brazil Mexico United States
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Thursday, February 5, 2009

liters means
• 6,868,473,361 gallons of bottled water/year
• 24 gallons of bottled water per person/year
• 4 bottles/person/week (16 oz bottle)
• 8 oz of bottled water per person/day
• 1,500,000 barrels of oil to make plastic bottles,
enough to fuel 100,000 cars for one year
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009

In the US, 86% of recyclable water bottles
end up as garbage or litter. So ...
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4 (bottles/wk)
* 86% (trash)
= 1,500 water
bottles that end
up as garbage
or litter
every second!
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Thursday, February 5, 2009

But what if ...
she replaced 2 of
her 4 bottles each
week with a
reusable container
filled with tap
water?
Thursday, February 5, 2009

What if ...
we all did?
Thursday, February 5, 2009

if each person in the US replaced 2 of 4 bottles/week
with a reusable container filled with tap water ...
• 24,000,000,000 bottles would NOT become garbage or litter every year
• 750,000 barrels of oil could be saved EVERY year
• we would each save about $150 EVERY year
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Can we do it?
Thursday, February 5, 2009