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Hint: It’s NOT bottled water!
What’s in the bucket?
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$0.00=
for water
$1.50=
for water
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$0.01=
for water
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$6.00=
for water
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China Brazil Mexico United States
26,000,000,000
18,000,000,000
12,000,000,00012,000,000,000
2004 total bottled water consumption (liters)
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• 6,868,473,361 gallons of bottled water/year
• 24 gallons of bottled water per person/year
• 4 bottles/person/week (16 oz bottle)
• 8 oz of bottled water per person/day
• 1,500,000 barrels of oil to make plastic bottles,
enough to fuel 100,000 cars for one year
liters means
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In the US, 86% of recyclable water bottles
end up as garbage or litter. So ...
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4 (bottles/wk)
* 86% (trash)
every second!
= 1,500 water
bottles that end
up as garbage
or litter
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But what if ...
she replaced 2 of
her 4 bottles each
week with a
reusable container
filled with tap
water?
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we all did?
What if ...
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• 24,000,000,000 bottles would NOT become garbage or litter every year
• 750,000 barrels of oil could be saved EVERY year
• we would each save about $150 EVERY year
if each person in the US replaced 2 of 4 bottles/week
with a reusable container filled with tap water ...
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Can we do it?
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