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The Bottle Burden
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450 years to decompose
According to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, a discarded plastic bottle takes 450 years to decompose.
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It's costly
The cost of consuming eight glasses of water a day is $0.49 per year; that same amount of bottled water is about $1,400.
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Wasted resources
Making bottles to meet America's demand for bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually. Enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year.
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Not sustainable
Last year, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles, but only recycled 38, the rest were sent to landfill.
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Plastic Problems
Every minute, 1,000,000 plastic bottles are consumed around the world. By 2050, there will be more pieces of plastic than fish in the ocean. 91% of all plastic ever created has not been recycled.
