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What are the top 5 things we
people who purchase water use
should be doing to save the
the bottle for 5-10 minutes and
environment?
discard it to the landfill, where it
There are a number of easy,
is not recycled. If you fill a water
fun ways for all of us to save our
bottle to a third of its capacity
environment. It all starts with
that is how much oil it takes
an attitude and a conscience
to actually produce the bottle.
behavioral change, which in
Seems like
turn can help to set an example
a complete
for those around you. My top
waste for
5 easiest ways to make a
something
difference include:
we use
briefly then
1) Ditch the plastic bags and
discard.
only use reusable shopping
When
bags: 380 billion plastic bags are reused and
used in the US alone every year,
exposed
which requires around 12 million
to the
barrels of oil to produce. Most of
elements
these bags are never reused and
plastic
cannot be recycled. Stock up on
bottles
reusable bags; keep some in your leach
car, your handbag or backpack.
highly toxic
compounds
2) Use a stainless steel
into the
refillable water bottle: Bottled
water that
water cost 1500 times the amount is then ingested by humans.
that tap water costs and is a huge When the bottles enter the
burden on the environment. Most
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oceans they take around