Do you use bottled water in your home? Yes? You could be throwing away an incredible $1400 every year! You want to hear something that is even worse than the previous statistic? Only 5% of the empty plastic bottles that you use ever get recycled.
That means that 95% of the plastic bottles used for water end up in a landfill in your community.
You can save yourself $1300 by investing just $100 into a multi-stage water filter to fit the existing water supply into your home.
The water coming into your home from your local water treatment facility is already safe to drink, but adding a filter will make it taste great too! Plus a water filter will also provide other benefits such as filtering out toxic chemicals in the water like chlorine and pharmaceutical drugs.
Water filters will also catch and separate harmful sediments from the water.
So not only will you feel better, but the environment will be better off without all of the plastic being dumped into landfills.
If it is necessary for you to still carry water bottles, consider using reusable bottles.
For example, you can get stainless steel water bottles that will last for a lifetime, and much more environmentally friendly.
Stainless steel water bottles will reduce the amount of bacteria that my come into contact with your body.
Stainless steel is also much easier to get clean than plastic.
Think about this: Americans burn some 1.
5 million barrels of oil every year just to produce all the plastic bottles of water that we use.
Just how many cars would be able to run off of that power for just one year? About 100,000 cars!