Avoid Pollution
With A Water Filter You Can Spare The Environment
With Water Filters you can avoid buying water in plastic bottles that harm the environment and instead create healthy water from ordinary tap water. At the same time it saves you the trouble of returning the plastic bottles.
- Most plastic water bottles are not recycled. The vast majority of the 1.5 million tons of plastic that are used globally each year for water bottles end up in landfills because many bottles are consumed on the move, away from home.
- Transportation of bottled water by truck and rail burns fossil fuels and results in the release of thousands of tons of harmful emissions.
- Filtering and processing of bottled water consume large amounts of electricity.
- The plastic used to manufacture water bottles, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), is derived from oil and generates 100 times the same amount of toxic emissions by the same amount of glass.
Some Facts on Bottled Water:
- The price of bottled water is up to 10,000 times the price of tap water!
- Compare $10 / gal for Bottled Water against $0.0015 / gal for Tap Water
- Annually, 8.6 million gallons of bottled water is consumed by Americans alone! Globally, 53 billion gallons are consumed, which generates $61 billion.
- Of all bottled water, 40% is taken from municipal water sources (aka Tap Water).
- 22% of tested bottled water brands contained chemical contaminants at levels above strict state health limits.
- Yearly, 17 million barrels of oil are used in the production of bottled water…
- …this is enough to fuel 1 million cars for a year!
- It takes 3 times the amount of water to produce the bottle than it does to fill it.
- Only 1 in 5 water bottles are
recycled.- The remaining 4 contribute to the 3 billion pounds of waste from plastic bottles!
| Bottled Water | vs. | Tap Water |
| No | tested for e.coli | Yes |
| No | required to provide source | Yes |
| No | required to produce quality reports | Yes |
| Yes | can still be distributed when tap water standards are not met |
No |

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