From the Take Back The Tap video contest.
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•Last year, Americans consumed 50,000,000,000 single-use bottles of water. 85% of these bottles ended up in landfills.
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•More than 17 million barrels of oil are used annually to produce disposable plastic water bottles in the U.S., enough to fuel more than 1 million U.S. cars for a year.
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•Manufacturing and transporting bottled water burn large amounts of fossil fuel – producing 2.5 million tons of the greenhouse gas CO2 annually from manufacturing and hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 from transportation
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•Bottled water is not safer than tap water. In fact, 40% of all bottled water actually comes from municipal water.
Reduce your carbon footprint.
Buy an NYC H2O Sports Bottle
For more facts, go to: Our Environment
Bottled water is thousands of times more expensive than tap water. It costs on average $10 a gallon and mostly comes from the same sources that tap water comes from. In New York City, our drinking water is hailed as one of the world's best. Some call it the “champagne” of tap waters. And it’s free!
NYC H2O Sports Bottles are made from safe, non-leaching HDPE #2 plastic. There’s been a growing concern that popular polycarbonate plastic bottles, often known by the brand Nalgene, can leach Bisphenol-A, an endocrine-disrupting chemical. NYC H2O Sports Bottles are free from this harmful industrial chemical. What’s more, NYC H2O Sports Bottles are made from 85-100% post-consumer recycled milk jugs.
Make the safe choice and buy an NYC H2O Sports Bottle. Take it with you wherever you go. Show it off. Make a statement. Tell your friends you’re kicking the bottled water habit!
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz says, “It’s a brilliant idea whose time has not only come — but is long overdue!”
After a month of campaigning with Think Outside the Bottle, we are proud to announce that our efforts paid off. What a great moment for democracy! Individuals really can make a difference. Thanks to all who volunteered and signed our petition.
Tap Into The City designs and produces sports bottles and other promotional materials supporting tap water campaigns across the country. We carefully source our bottles to ensure that they are made from the safest materials and have the lowest environmental impact.
As a full-service company, Tap Into The City will customize a bottle for your city, company, organization or school. And we will work with you to create a complete campaign to promote the public benefits of tap water and help raise awareness of the importance of drinking tap water and kicking the bottled water habit.
To get more information on how we can customize a bottle for you, email us at: info@tapintothecity.com.
For the latest news about bottled water and our Kick the Bottled Water Habit Campaign, go to our Tap Into The City Blog.
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