“We move one billion bottles of water around a week in ships,
trains, and trucks in the United States alone.” – Fast Company
“Americans consumed 50 billion plastic water bottles last year,
167 for each person, made of totally recyclable polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) plastic.”
“Recycling rate for PET is 23%, which means we pitch 38 billion
water bottles a year into landfills—more than $1 billion worth
of plastic.”
Some of the mind numbing facts from “Repeat After Me… I’ll Never Use
Another Plastic Water Bottle” by Jim Moriarty CEO, Surfrider Foundation
http://www.surfrider.org/makingwaves/makingwaves24-2/3.pdf
The Solution?
