Hello!
Sorry today's post is up a bit late.
Today is the last day of Water Week! On Monday, we will be starting Waste Week, during which we will challenge you to cut back on the amount of garbage you produce.
Today's challenge is:
Use reusable water bottles
Ditching bottled water bottles is a no brainier.
- Over 80% of plastic water bottles are NOT recycled.
• The average American uses 167 disposable water bottles every year, but only recycles 38.3.
- The recommended eight glasses of water a day, at U.S. tap rates equals about $.49 per year; that same amount of bottled water is about $1,400.
- Making bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year. And that’s not even including the oil used for transportation.
- The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes.
All facts are taken from http://www.banthebottle.net/bottled-water-facts
~The coyotes