In the October 2009 issue of Selling Power an article side bar detailed the facts on bottled water.
I have a solution and with just a little effort you can make an impact.
* Americans buy 28 billion bottles of water a year
* Bottled water costs as much as $10.00 per gallon, compared to less than a penny per gallon for tap water
* Making bottles meet Americas’ demand for bottled water in 2006 required energy equaivalent to more than 17 million barrels of oil – enough fuel to power more than 1 million cars in the United States for a year – and generated more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.
* Drinking eight glasses of bottled water a day could cost up to $1,400 annually. The same amount of tap water would cost around 49 cents.
* Worldwide, 2.7 million tons of plastic are used each year to make water bottles, and in the United States, less than 20 percent of these bottles are recycled.
* Ninety-six percent of bottled water is sold in single-size polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles, which end up in city trash cans rather than recycling bins. The national recycling rate for all PET bottles, including soda bottles, is 23.1 perscent.
* About 4 billion PET bottles end up in the waste stream, costing cities around $70 million a year in clean-up and landfill costs.
I know what you are thinking, I don’t want to drink tap water, it tastes like chlorine. Most bottled water is just filtered tap water so one solution is to add a small filter in your home and you have the same thing as bottled water. No chlorine and funny tastes.
For the bottle I have a number of safe, recylable and even bottles from recycled materials. So you can be eco-friendly, save money and help the environment.
Here is just one example of an eco-friendly bottle;
Check out www.rhinomarketing.com for more ideas.
