It's not easy being GREEN Save the planet and lose weight.

cmriverside

I'm going to try to find ways to combine two of my passions. Weight Loss (maintenance in my case) AND planet conservation. Here is my thought for the day. I'd love any new suggestions!!
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Why is bottled water waste a concern? Here are just a few reasons...

Americans used 50 billion water bottles in 2006 and sent 38 billion water bottles to landfills, the equivalent of 912 million gallons of oil. If laid end to end, that’s enough bottles to travel from the Earth to the Moon and back 10 times.

If placed in a landfill or littered, those bottles could take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade.

The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes.

In 2006, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles, but only recycled 38.1

Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles in 2006. 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.
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(from: http://www.filterforgood.com/learn_the_facts.php?WT.srch=1)

cmriverside

I'm going to try to find ways to combine two of my passions. Weight Loss (maintenance in my case) AND planet conservation. Here is my thought for the day. I'd love any new suggestions!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Why is bottled water waste a concern? Here are just a few reasons...

Americans used 50 billion water bottles in 2006 and sent 38 billion water bottles to landfills, the equivalent of 912 million gallons of oil. If laid end to end, that’s enough bottles to travel from the Earth to the Moon and back 10 times.

If placed in a landfill or littered, those bottles could take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade.

The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes.

In 2006, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles, but only recycled 38.1

Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles in 2006. 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.
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(from: http://www.filterforgood.com/learn_the_facts.php?WT.srch=1)

Renae_Nae

It's also cheaper to keep re-filling one bottle too!

cmriverside

some of the bottles are being questioned as to the safety of refilling.

http://www.nynjtc.org/health/plastic-et.html

Check out these cool bottles. I have two of them....

http://sigg.com/

Marla64

It's also cheaper to keep re-filling one bottle too!

That's what I do-- rinse with scalding water, and refill. After a couple weeks, they go in the trash and I buy a new case.

Girlmom282109

I have a filter for good water bottle actually 2 of them. I love them. I do have two smaller water bottles that I refill from out refrige filter but they are green water bottles. Hubby went to a green coference for work and he got these water bottles that are made out of corn. so if I was to throw them out they would only take 120 days to decompose.

cmriverside

I have a filter for good water bottle actually 2 of them. I love them. I do have two smaller water bottles that I refill from out refrige filter but they are green water bottles. Hubby went to a green coference for work and he got these water bottles that are made out of corn. so if I was to throw them out they would only take 120 days to decompose.

Yeah! Cool! They have a free (or mostly free - like $2 I think) giveaway on the website for filterforgood. I think they have you sign a pledge not to buy those "throw-away" bottles. Don't quote me on that "free" part, though! I went to the site this morning, and since I already don't buy them, I just glanced at the pledge thing.