Pitch The Plastic & Save Over $800 on Water!

There are many ecological reasons to stop buying bottled water, but for most of us the convenience of bottled water wins us over and we shell out our hard earned money for something we can get for free at home.

If each of us invested in a reusable water bottle with a purifying filter built right in we could save upwards of $800 or more in the long run!

Let's use the PureH2O Filtered Stainless Steel water bottle for example (available on Shop.com).

This bottle costs $23.95 and comes with a filter.  One filter is able to purify the tap water equivalent of at least 591 water bottles.  This saves you over $800 if using the average cost of $1.50 for a 16 .oz disposable bottle of water.

And if that isn't enough reason for you to switch to a reusable filtered water bottle...read on!


Here are more reasons to Pitch The Plastic!

• 2,480,000 tons of plastic bottles and jars are thrown away in one year.
• Tap water is cleaner, cheaper and healthier than store-bought water.
• 60 billion single-use drink containers were purchased in 2006, and 3 out of 4 were thrown out directly after use.
• Plastic bottles are among the most prevalent source of pollution found on our beaches.
• Plastic trash absorbs pre-existing organic pollutants like BPA and PCBs.

• In the United States, 24 percent of bottled water sold is either Pepsi’s Aquafina (13 percent of the market) or Coke’s Dasani (11 percent of the market). Both brands are bottled, purified municipal water.

• In the U.S., public water is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which requires multiple daily tests for bacteria and makes results available to the public. The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates bottled water, only requires weekly testing and does not share its findings with the EPA or the public.