The Low Down on Plastic Water Bottles

•       On average, bottled water costs 900 times the amount of tap water.
• ·      This year, Americans will spend $40 billion on bottled water
• ·      25% of all bottled water is re-packaged tap water
• ·      Tap water regulation has more stringent governmental standards than that of bottled water regulation
• ·      The amount of oil required to put one bottle of water in your hand would fill ¼ of that same bottle
• ·      90% of used water bottles are not recycled
• ·      Right now millions of pounds of trash are floating in the pacific ocean to form an island at least twice the size of Texas – 90% of that trash is discarded plastic

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