| You've probably heard about the ridiculous number of | | | | and for all: invest in a Brita water filtering pitcher, and |
| plastic water bottles that are getting dumped into | | | | pick up two or three reusable stainless steel water |
| landfills each and every year-- more than 22 billion of | | | | bottles while you're at it. You can get the water bottles |
| them, to be exact. If you drink bottled water and are | | | | on eBay for about ten bucks apiece; keep them filled |
| trying to go green, you probably tell yourself that you'll | | | | up and in the fridge so they're convenient. (Tip: Be sure |
| make up for it by recycling the empties rather than | | | | the bottles you get are stainless steel and not |
| throwing them away. | | | | aluminum. They jury's still out in the green community |
| That's a great idea in theory, but here's the problem: | | | | about the safety of ingesting things stored or cooked |
| you probably consume most of your bottled water | | | | in aluminum containers.) You'll save about a hundred |
| outside your home, where recycling depositories are | | | | bucks a year if your bottled water habit currently |
| few and far between. | | | | costs you three dollars a week. |
| The result? All too often, you sip on your H2O | | | | "Reduce, reuse, recycle." We've all heard that old |
| throughout the day and end up tossing the empty | | | | refrain-- probably more than once! Well, making the |
| bottle into a garbage bin at the mall. You'll recycle the | | | | simple switch from "disposable" to "reusable" is what |
| next one, right? Wrong. It doesn't work like that. Be | | | | that credo is all about. Continue your green journey by |
| honest: when was the last time you recycled a plastic | | | | identifying and eliminating the most wasteful habits you |
| bottle when you were out and about? | | | | have-- starting with bottled water. |
| Put an end to the wasteful bottled water habit once | | | | |