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Bottled Water is not any cleaner than Tap Water
• It takes 1.5 million barrels of oil to produce the plastic that
Americans use each year, enough to fuel 100,000 U.S. cars for a
year
• An estimated 40 percent of bottled water sold in the United
States is just filtered tap water.
Source: American Museum of Natural History; www.amnh.org
Earth Policy Institute; www.earth-policy.org
Tennessee Division of Water Supply in the Department of Environment and Conservation;
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• The areas with Yellow dots show the concentration of
Plastic in the Pacific Vortex
• Each Year Millions of sea animals are killed or suffer
health issues because of the pollution
• The amount of Plastic is as large as the state of TEXA
in some areas.
• 80% of the plastic is land based
Plastic Waste
• 166 Bottles of water
consumed by the average
American each year.
• 8 out of 10 The number
of unrecycled plastic
water bottles that wind up
in landfills or incinerators
•
1,000 The estimated
number of years required
for a plastic water bottle
to decompose
Source: Container Recycling Institute;
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