Friday 8 April 2011

drink to your health!

some quick facts about water bottles (the ones we all think are recyclable): 80% of plastic bottles are recyclable but only 20% are actually recycled.

plastic bottles take 700 years to begin composting.

24 million gallons of oil are needed to produce a billion plastic bottles.
also, some research suggests that common plastic water bottles start leaking chemicals into your water as soon as they are filled, depending on their manufacturing process. Yummo!
interesting huh?

if that makes you stop and think to yourself “oh!” (in a negative way), here’s another fact that will make you think “oh!” (in a positive way!): the original polycarb pop-top can be reused up to 1000 times without leaking any chemicals into your precious h2oh! (hehe)




now there are more than one kind of reusable water bottle (check SIGG out for starters!), but I’m personally using a polycarb, because it is light and just like a regular pop top, and it doesn’t make your water taste funny like all the stupid plastic water bottles you get off businesses and sports teams as marketing promos (yay!)
i bought a litre bottle for $6.95 from my local organic store. for over 1000 safe uses and recyclable afterwards, bargain.

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