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 yobaba rated 3 months ago -
It takes 15 million barrels of oil per year to make all of the plastic water bottles in America, according to the Container Recycling Institute. Sending those bottles by air and truck uses even more fossil fuel.
Once people drain the bottles, they rarely recycle them because they're ofte...
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- ybfree rated 3 months ago
- I actually am a closet recycler. I picked up a stray plastic bottle while walking my dog yesterday and recycled.
- yobaba rated 3 months ago
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It takes 15 million barrels of oil per year to make all of the plastic water bottles in America, according to the Container Recycling Institute. Sending those bottles by air and truck uses even more fossil fuel.
Once people drain the bottles, they rarely recycle them because they're often purchased at big concert venues or airports with no recycling bins. CRI says eight out of 10 water bottles end up in the landfill. The bottles that drift from landfills and litter streams are washing out to sea to form a huge raft of plastic debris in the center of the Pacfic that is twice the size of Texas.
It takes 1,000 years for plastic bottles to break down, CRI estimates. But when they do, they disintegrate into tiny bits. The green and blue bottles, especially, look like tasty food to fish and shorebirds. Scientists are finding these dead animals on the beach, with bellies full of plastic pellets.
 chipsandsalsa rated 3 months ago- i'm against tap water. maybe it's all in my head, but the tap water tastes horrible.
- sparlo rated 3 months ago
- Be a tap water activist! Who could be against tapwater?
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