– Jane Goodall
On the lookout for an environmentally pleasant idea to faucet into? This is one: ditch the plastic water bottles and begin getting your aqua at home.
An estimated 88% of plastic water bottles are NOT recycled in Canada – a number that is as embarrassing as it’s staggering.
With every Canadian consuming 60 litres of bottled water a yr – and gross sales surpassing coffee, tea, and milk – it is a lot of plastic needlessly piling up in landfills.
In North America, it was once that about 70 million plastic water bottles ended up in landfills annually.
In the present day, within the US alone, Individuals use an estimated 50 BILLION plastic water bottles in a yr – and 40 billion of these ended up in landfills.
Holy batman… that may be a LOT of plastic water bottles!
Throughout the globe, near 2.5 billion kilograms of plastic are used to bottle water yearly. And this plastic can take so long as 1,000 years to biodegrade. Within the course of, poisonous components are leaching into the groundwater.
As for the quantity of oil required to supply stated plastic? It takes 17 million barrels of oil annually to make water bottles for the US market. That’s the equal of fueling 1 million cars for a yr.