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Staying Hydrated and Protecting the Environment With Filtered Water

by Kristen King on April 10th, 2008

I’ve posted before about the environmental impact of drinking bottled water. With Earth Day around the corner (April 22!), I was excited to get a nice note from Filter for Good, offering to send me and my readers some free water filters and Nalgene water bottles! I don’t know what and how many are on the way, so I don’t have any details about the giveaway yet, but I’ll let you know as soon as I do.

In the meantime, here’s an excerpt from the Filter for Good fact sheet on bottled water:

Why is bottled water waste a concern? Here are just a few reasons…

• Making bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water uses more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year. And that’s not even including the oil used for transportation.
• The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes.
• Last year, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles, but only recycled 38.
• Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. However, the U.S.’s recycling rate for plastic is only 23 percent, which means 38 billion water bottles - more than $1 billion worth of plastic - are wasted each year.

You can get reference sources for these facts and more details at the Filter for Good website.

Tags: womens health blog, womens health, women, woman, health, filtered water, bottled water, nalgene bottle, drinking water, recycling, earth day, filter for good, lively women, kristen king

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